How much will you actually need?
Put in your area and your bed spacing. It works out mulching film — in rolls and in kilograms, the way it is actually sold — plus drip, plants, trays, bamboo, poly taar and sutli.
Sets typical spacing — check it against your own practice and change it.
Spacing
Bed length in total
2,213 m
Bed pitch
1.83 m
Plants
9,680
Nursery plants | 10,358 plants |
Seedling trays 98-cell | 106 trays |
Mulching film 1.2192 m × 25 µm × 400 m | 6 rolls ≈ 67.3 kg |
Drip lateral 400 m coil | 6 coils ≈ 2,390 m |
Bamboo / stakes one every 1.8288 m | 2,614 pieces |
Trellis wire (poly taar) 3 tier(s) | 7,170 m |
Tying twine (sutli) | 18,818 m |
Your film is not wider than the bed. It needs extra width on both sides to bury, or it lifts in the first wind.
Wastage allowed on materials: 8%
Extra plants for gap filling: 7%
Film weight figured at: 25 µm · 920 kg/m³
Quantities are rounded up — running short stops a planting.
This is the easy half
Knowing what to buy is one thing. Knowing what the crop earned after it is another. Cropbooks keeps the purchase, the labour, the spray and the mandi patti against the crop cycle, and tells you the profit per acre and the cost per kilo.