Efficiency in fruit marketing: Accuracy and cost of small-sample grading systems for California fruit packing houses

French, B; Bressler, R

Efficiency in fruit marketing: Accuracy and cost of small-sample grading systems for California fruit packing houses

Authors

B. C. French
R. O. Bressler

Authors Affiliations

B. C. French is a co-operative agent of the University of California Experiment Station and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U.S.D.A; R. G. Bressler is Director of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Berkeley.

Publication Information

Hilgardia 7(3):11-16. DOI:10.3733/ca.v007n03p11. March 1953.

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Abstract

This article is the second section of Part VIII of a series of reports on the effects of packing-house equipment, plant layout, and work methods on efficiency and costs. These studies have been made co-operatively by the University of California Giunnini Foundation of Agricultural Economics and the United States Department of Agriculture under the authority of the Research and Marketing Act of 1946

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