VARIABLE COSTS IN FIELD VEGETABLES PRODUCTION

Variable costs are costs which change in magnitude as the amount of output of the production process changes.
The total run of the variable costs can vary proportional with, more than proportional with or less than proportional with the amount of outputs.
Average variable costs is computed by dividing total variable costs by the amount of output.

In the analyses of the economy of the production, done by the D.E.G. the gross marginals in different products and at different producers are computed and compared.
One analysis last for two years and the results are published each year.
Presently publications of cauliflower, carrot, onion and leek are available.
The number of producers in each analysis has been from 6 to 8.

The reached economial results are somewhat different from one producer to another, as well as in order of magnitude of the gross marginal, as in the variable costs.

Symposium on Timing of Field Production of Vegetables

J.G. Eskesen

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1981.122.22