Efficiency in fruit marketing: Effect of different types of equipment on in-plant transportation costs in fresh-fruit packing houses

Abstract

This article is the second section of Part VI of a series of reports of studies on the effects of packing-house equipment, plant layout, and work methods on efficiency and costs. These studies have been made cooperatively 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.