Efficiency in fruit marketing: Packing labor efficiency and costs in California pear and apple packing plants influenced by varying factors
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B. C. FrenchAuthor Affiliations
B. C. French is a co-operative agent of the University of California Agricultural Experiment Station and of the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics.Publication Information
Hilgardia 6(9):9-10. DOI:10.3733/ca.v006n09p9. September 1952.
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Abstract
Part IV of a series of reports of studies on the effects of packinghouse equipment, plant layout, and work methods on efficiency and costs. These studies have been made co-operatively by the University of California Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture, under the authority of the Research and Marketing Act. Detailed reports are available by addressing the Giannini Foundation, 207 Giannini Hall, University of California, Berkeley 4.
French B. 1952. Efficiency in fruit marketing: Packing labor efficiency and costs in California pear and apple packing plants influenced by varying factors. Hilgardia 6(9):9-10. DOI:10.3733/ca.v006n09p9
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