| Activities | Unit &/Amount (Mandays) | Unit cost (T.shs.) | Total variable cost (T.shs.) | Total variable Cost in (US$) |
| Land preparation | Tractor | 60,000 | 60,000 | 36.4 |
| Planting per hactre | 6 | 10,000 | 30,000 | 18.2 |
| Weeding 3 rounds | 10 | 10,000 | 100,000 | 60.6 |
| Crop harvesting per hactre | 5 | 10,000 | 50,000 | 30.3 |
| Threshing and processing/100 kg | 4 | 10,000 | 40,000 | 24.2 |
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| Rhizobial inoculation | 2 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 12.12 |
| 30 kg P | 2 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 12.12 |
| 20 kg K | 2 | 10,000 | 20,000 | 12.12 |
| Inoculation + 30 kg P + 20 KG K | 3 | 10,000 | 30,000 | 18.18 |
| TOTAL |
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| 370,000 | 224.24 |