Research Article
Soil Properties, Crop Yield, and Economic Return in Response to Lime Application on Acidic Nitisols of Southern Highlands of Ethiopia
Table 8
Marginal and partial budget analyses of different rates of lime application combined over 2 years on Nitisols in southern Ethiopia.
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Dominated; 1USD = 47 Ethiopian birr at the time of the study. Price of barley grain = 30 birr kg−1; price of barley straw = 4.11 birr kg−1. The market price of lime = 4.5 birr kg−1; labor cost for spreading lime = 50 ETB per person-day. |