Efficiency in fruit marketing: Accounting for fruit by separate-lot system studied in sample apple, pear packing and olive processing plants

Bressler, R; French, B

Efficiency in fruit marketing: Accounting for fruit by separate-lot system studied in sample apple, pear packing and olive processing plants

Authors

R. G. Bressler
B. C. French

Authors Affiliations

R. G. Bressler is Director of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics, University of California College of Agriculture, Berkeley; 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 7(2):13-16. DOI:10.3733/ca.v007n02p13. February 1953.

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Abstract

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.

A subsequent part in this serics will deal with the sampling system the second system used in California fruit-packing and processing houses to account to growers for products received. This part will also compare plant costs under the separate-lot and sampling systems to determine the particular method most economical under varying conditions

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