Cost and Revenue of Date Production in District Kech of Balohistan

The study aims at estimating the average cost and revenues of date production district Kech of Balochistan which is the highest date producing province of Pakistan. A sample of size 40 date growers was selected through simple random sampling from three purposively selected villages of the study area. Simple budgeting technique was used for calculation of cost and revenues. The total cost of production of date per acre included caring/cutting/pruning cost, labour cost, irrigation fertilizer cost, chemical cost and marketing costs etc. The average total cost incurred per acre in the study area was found to be PKR. 60720. The major contribution factor was caring/cutting/pruning cost that parted 27.67% share in average total cost. The gross and net revenues were estimated to be PKR. 451,200 and PKR. 390,480 respectively. The study recommended special