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Cane payment estimator

For cane growers in Fiji. Enter your tonnes, the price per tonne and your harvesting, transport and other costs to see the gross payment, what you keep, and your net per tonne and per hectare.

Your harvest

1 acre is about 0.4 ha.

From your mill weighbridge dockets, or your best estimate.

Use the price announced for your season by the mill or growers' bodies. The starting number is only an example.

Costs - from your gang, carrier and statements

Other deductions: anything taken out of your cane payment, such as fertiliser or cane advances, loan repayments or levies.

Your estimate

FJ$21,600gross cane payment
FJ$0.00costs and deductions
FJ$21,600you keep
  • You keep
  • Harvesting
  • Transport
  • Other
Yield
60.0 t/ha
Harvesting
FJ$0.00
Transport
FJ$0.00
Other deductions
FJ$0.00
You keep per tonne
FJ$90.00
You keep per hectare
FJ$5,400
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How we work it out

  • Gross payment: tonnes of cane × price per tonne.
  • What you keep: gross minus harvesting and transport (per tonne) and your other deductions (in total).
  • Per tonne and per hectare: what you keep ÷ tonnes, and ÷ hectares - handy for comparing blocks and seasons.

An estimate only. Cane payments in Fiji are usually made in instalments through the season, so the money may arrive in parts, and the final price, cane quality and your statements decide the real amount. Check with your mill or sector office. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere. Words like crushing season and sirdar are in the farm words glossary, and this season in Fiji is in our Fiji guide.

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