Greenhouse tomato plantations brought in an average net profit of 17,500 Euro per hectare last season; a figure 65.09% greater than in the 2010/2011 campaign, when the net profit reached 10,600 Euro per hectare, according to data obtained by the Andalusian Council of Agriculture, Fisheries and Environment.
Of the data analysis provided by the Andalusian Price and Markets Observatory it also emerges that the average costs for the greenhouse production of tomato, in the year 2011, were of 4.88 Euro per m², while in 2012 that figure increased to 5 Euro per m².
The average price of first class tomatoes grown in greenhouses was of 0.44 Euro per kilo in 2010/2011, which increased to 0.50 per kilo during the 2011/2012 campaign.
Through these data on prices, production and costs we can determine that greenhouse tomato growers obtained a gross return of 5.94 Euro per m² during the 2010/2011 campaign, and a net profit, after all costs have been deduced, of 1.06 Euro per m². During the following campaign, the 2011/2012, the gross return increased to 6.75 Euro per m², while net profits increased to 1.75 Euro per m², bringing in 17,500 Euro in revenue per hectare during the 2011/2012 campaign, compared to the 10,600 from the previous one.
The costs taken into account include the seeds and rootstocks, fertilisers, phytosanitary treatments and auxiliary fauna, water, energy, supplies, labour, other external services and many other general and financial costs.
Source: hortoinfo