Labour, machinery and energy data bases in plant production

摘要

Material for this study was delivered by the FAO Working Group on Labour, Machinery and Energy Data Bases in Plant Production. The Working Group had participants from seven European countries and it operated in 1989-1992. National data from each country was collected concerning plant production technologies and work study methods. Plant production technologies and selected field operations were compared between the countries. The comparison parameters were labour usage (h/ha), labour costs (ECU/ha), fuel consumption (l/ha), fuel costs (ECU/ha), machine costs (ECU/ha) and total operating costs (ECU/ha). Each country provided the data of eight different crops: spring barley, winter wheat, sugarbeets, potato for human consumption and four other plants typical for each country. The data was compiled and analysed and the publication, written by the staff of Work Efficiency Institute. Different ways of doing work study measurements and calculations in each country created some variation to the results. To correct the variation the labour usage results were recalculated with Dutch computer program, but it did not help. Because of this one must be careful when drawing conclusions about the results. When comparing the different countries the benefits of large scale production and good growing conditions become evident in Hungary, where the amount of inputs included in this study per ton of product is low. In Finland the short growing season limits the yield and the farms are small. Therefore amount of inputs per ton of product is high.