Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest
In recent years in San Juan, Argentina the lack of manpower to harvest, clean and packing export table grape caused serious economic problems and it is the most important reason that explains the disappearance of Argentina in this area. Labor is very expensive and it is the highest production cost....
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| author | Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian Gennari, Alejandro |
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| description | In recent years in San Juan, Argentina the lack of manpower to harvest, clean and packing export table grape caused serious economic problems and it is the most important reason that explains the disappearance of Argentina in this area. Labor is very expensive and it is the highest production cost. Also it is unknown in Argentina whether it is convenient hiring labor or not. In the other hand the efficient used of labor is disregarded and buying hard technology in replacement of labor is very difficult in table grape production. The objective of this study is to measure the mean and marginal labor productivity
during harvesting, packing and to describe the process. A sectional study was carry out with 144 interviews in seven districts in San Juan. The harvesting and cleaning time was measured and the number of table grape boxes done in a certain period of time too. We observed each harvesting and packing group made up of one to four people and that when the number of workers per group increased, the number of boxes per worker per hour had reduced from 4 to 1 resulting in a negative marginal
productivity. Up to 20% of the effective working time a day was lost due to failures in the work organization. |
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| spelling | INTA77082020-08-11T19:03:59Z Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian Gennari, Alejandro Vid Viticultura Cosecha Costos Grapevines Viticulture Harvesting Costs Dessert Grapes Uvas de Mesa In recent years in San Juan, Argentina the lack of manpower to harvest, clean and packing export table grape caused serious economic problems and it is the most important reason that explains the disappearance of Argentina in this area. Labor is very expensive and it is the highest production cost. Also it is unknown in Argentina whether it is convenient hiring labor or not. In the other hand the efficient used of labor is disregarded and buying hard technology in replacement of labor is very difficult in table grape production. The objective of this study is to measure the mean and marginal labor productivity during harvesting, packing and to describe the process. A sectional study was carry out with 144 interviews in seven districts in San Juan. The harvesting and cleaning time was measured and the number of table grape boxes done in a certain period of time too. We observed each harvesting and packing group made up of one to four people and that when the number of workers per group increased, the number of boxes per worker per hour had reduced from 4 to 1 resulting in a negative marginal productivity. Up to 20% of the effective working time a day was lost due to failures in the work organization. EEA San Juan Fil: Espíndola, Rodrigo Sebastián. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Juan; Argentina Fil: Gennari, Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; Argentina 2020-08-11T18:45:13Z 2020-08-11T18:45:13Z 2020-08-10 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7708 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=216&doi=10.11648/j.abb.20200802.15 2330-4154 2330-4162 https://doi.org/10.11648/j.abb.20200802.15 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Science Publishing Group Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering 8 (2) : 31-34 (2020) |
| spellingShingle | Vid Viticultura Cosecha Costos Grapevines Viticulture Harvesting Costs Dessert Grapes Uvas de Mesa Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian Gennari, Alejandro Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest |
| title | Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest |
| title_full | Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest |
| title_fullStr | Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest |
| title_full_unstemmed | Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest |
| title_short | Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest |
| title_sort | marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest |
| topic | Vid Viticultura Cosecha Costos Grapevines Viticulture Harvesting Costs Dessert Grapes Uvas de Mesa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7708 http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=216&doi=10.11648/j.abb.20200802.15 https://doi.org/10.11648/j.abb.20200802.15 |
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