Factors affecting decision-making on greenhouse farming and cost-benefit analysis of greenhouse vegetable crops and melons in the northeastern region of Thailand
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Northeastern Thai farmers in three provinces: Udon Thani, Nongkhai and Nong Bua Lamphu stated that healthiness was the foremost factor affecting their decision-making on greenhouse farming. Furthermore, cost and benefit of cultivating greenhouse vegetable crops and melons by these farmers were differently differed. In terms of greenhouse vegetable crop farming, it showed that its averaged total cost was 1,965.50 baht/production cycle, and this cost was divided into the averaged variable cost of 1,561.83 baht/production cycle and the averaged fixed cost of 403.67 baht/production cycle; moreover, its net profit was averaged of 1,060.75 baht/production cycle. In greenhouse melon farming, it indicated that its averaged total cost specified 7,595.50 baht/production cycle was based on the averaged variable cost of 6,521.33 baht/production cycle together with the averaged fixed cost of 1,074.17 baht/production cycle; in addition, its averaged net profit was 6,504.50 baht/production cycle. Comparing these results, cost and benefit of cultivating greenhouse vegetable crops and melons were significantly different at a statistical level of 0.05.
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