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research article

Efficiency in fruit marketing: Orchard-to-plant transportation method and equipment important factors in determining labor requirements

authors

L. L. Sammet, the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. D. A

publication information

California Agriculture 6(8):10-12. DOI: 10.3733/ca.v006n08p10. August 1952.

author affiliations

L. L. Sammet is a Co-operative Agent of the California Agricultural Experiment Station and of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, U. S. D.A;

abstract

Part III of a series of reports of studies on the effects of packinghouse equipment, plant layout, and work methods on efficiency and costs made cooperatively by the University of California Guanine 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.