Table 1 Per hectare costs (in 2013 USD) for five major inputs across the two coffee species.

From: Birds and beans: Comparing avian richness and endemism in arabica and robusta agroforests in India’s Western Ghats

Input

Arabica

Robusta

User %

Pay %

Mean (SE)

Range

User %

Pay %

Mean (SE)

Range

Conventional Fertilizer

86.4

30.5

16.4 (0.25)

[0, 368.7]

82.2

70.3

46.2 (0.46)

[0, 1075]

Herbicide

18.3

14.1

4.7 (0.14)

[0, 294.9]

5.9

5.1

0.6 (0.01)

[0, 36.9]

Irrigation

17.4

17

16.3 (0.25)

[0, 123.7]

36.4

36

11.7 (0.13)

[0, 309.7]

Organic Fertilizer

48.8

31

15.9 (0.24)

[0, 368.7]

40.3

24.2

9.5 (0.15)

[0, 327.7]

Pesticide

75.6

69

31.8 (0.28)

[0, 435.7]

16.9

16.1

3.2 (0.04)

[0, 81.9]

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