THE EXTENSION OF THE HARVESTING PERIOD OF THE MAIN VEGETABLE CROPS AND ITS EFFECT UPON FARM MANAGEMENT

The extension of the harvesting period in field grown vegetables has many consequences in farm management: better exploitation of harvesting machines; changes of requirements in hand labour and in personnel; reduction in specific investment and amortization, in production costs of the crop; after all revenues may change substantially.

The consequences of an extended harvesting season should be reviewed not only on the level of a farm or a processing plant, but also in a vertical entanglement of the whole national food industry.
Depending upon considerations aimed to increase the rentability of the end product in some cases the growers may be stimulated to extend the harvesting by season-dependent prices.

All of the above mentioned have to be calculated on the basis of the system of actual prices.
As the validity of those calculations is temporary because of permanently changing costs and prices it is advisable to recalculate the system every two or three years.

II Symposium on Timing of the Fieldproduction of Vegetable Crops

E. Vig

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1975.52.3