การกำหนดราคาที่เหมาะสมสำหรับปาล์มน้ำมันคุณภาพ

Abstract

The research aimed to 1) study on trading and pricing method of oil palm ramps 2) analyze and compare cost, and return, between trading quality and poor quality oil palms ramps 3) provide guideline on pricing quality oil palm. The data were collected from 15 quality oil palm ramps and 15 poor quality oil palm ramps in Suratthani by using questionnaires. The data analysis included descriptive analysis and partial budgeting analysis to compare the difference on trading method and profit margin of trading quality oil palm and poor quality oil palm ramps. The study results indicated that 1) overall, most trading activities in both kinds of ramps were indifference. However, some activities that affected to the quality oil palm have founded in the poor quality ramps. These included the purchasing of raw oil palm, watering oil palm to increase weight, keeping oil palm overnight at the ramps, swaying and separating fruit from oil palm bunch, and the fewer number of crushing plants which the ramps sent oil palms to sell. In addition, the prices of buying oil palm from farmers were priced based on the prices quoted by the crushing plant. 2) By using partial budgeting, costs and returns of trading oil palm between quality and poor quality were calculated and compared. On cost side, it was shown that the costs of poor quality oil palm were higher than those of quality oil palm about 0.0277 baht per kilogram. Likewise, it also found that the poor quality ramps had higher income than quality ramps at 0.2420 baht per kilogram. This resulted in the net higher profit of 0.21 baht per kilogram of trading poor quality. Therefore, in order to motivate the poor quality oil palm ramps to keep the oil palm quality, the increment price of quality oil palm should be set at least 0.21 baht per kilogram higher than the price of poor quality oil palm.