2012-01-062012-01-061988968-6127-24-0http://hdl.handle.net/10883/1063This manual presents a set of procedures for doing an economic analysis of on-farm agronomic experiments wich will help in selecting treatments for furter experimentation and for developing farmer recommendations. The following points are discussed: importance of reviewing the objectives of the experiment; the experimental design and management; how to calculate total costs that vary, average yields, adjusted yield, gross field benefits, and net benefits; how to develop a partial budget; the importance of dominance analysis, marginal analysis, minimum returns analysis, and sensitivity analysis; and how to draw and report appropriatePDFCIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose.AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND BIOTECHNOLOGYHandbookCOST BENEFIT ANALYSISCROP YIELDDATA ANALYSISDIAGNOSISECONOMIC ANALYSISEXPERIMENTATIONINNOVATION ADOPTIONMARGINAL ANALYSISMETHODSPLANNINGPRICESCOST BENEFIT ANALYSISCROP YIELDDATA ANALYSISDIAGNOSISECONOMIC ANALYSISEXPERIMENTATIONINNOVATION ADOPTIONMARGINAL ANALYSISMETHODSPLANNINGPRICESOpen Access