| Cost Category | Total (USD/ha) | ||
| Cote d’Ivoire | Benin | Ghana | |
| Hired human labor (all stages) | 68.6 | 138.8 | 51.9 |
| Hired animal labor (all stages) | 5.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| Seed | 8.8 | 4.7 | 6.2 |
| Tilling, excluding labor | 8.7 | 7.1 | 24.2 |
| Fertilizer (all stages) | 121.3 | 67.4 | 169.2 |
| Agriculture chemicals including equip. (all stages) | 48.3 | 5.6 | 29.1 |
| Harvesting, excluding labor | 30.4 | 19.9 | 19.4 |
| Admin & Overhead | 12.8 | 20.4 | 1.4 |
| Total cost per hectare of maize | 304.6 | 264.3 | 301.4 |
| Cost per production unit, US$/ton) | 123.7 | 227.9 | 180.5 |
| Yield rate (t/ha) | 2.74 | 1.36 | 1.67 |