APPLICATION OF LIFE CYCLE COST METHOD FOR WILLOW PRODUCTION MACHINERY

The paper proposes a method based on Life Cycle Cost (LCC), for decision making process in agricultural engineering, especially in equipment acquisition. The purpose of this paper is to provide one application which uses life cycle cost for a system of interest (including individual agricultural systems, system of agricultural associations, and production and business in agriculture equipment), from an early conceptual stage in the product life cycle through to disposal. Also, it provides illustrations on the types of life cycle cost studies that can be conducted and examples to demonstrate the benefits of conducting life cycle cost to inform the decision making process. Life cycle cost analysis was considered not as a one-off task and has been used for analysis of a project concerning energetic willow cultivation in Banat Region. Three scenarios were estimated in different surfaces of the growing area