Global agricultural costing model

The agricultural costing model is a cost calculator that includes national-scale information on costs of production for ten major crops including, barley, groundnut, maize, potato, rice, sorghum, soybean, sugar beet, sunflower, and wheat, and works in combination to FABLE calculator. The present version of the costing inventory includes five cost items corresponding to costs for the production inputs of fertiliser, pesticides, labour, machinery and fuel. The current setting of the cost calculation is based on the integration of physical requirement per hectare for any given production input, the respective cost per unit of input and the cropland extent.