Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest

Autores
Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian; Gennari, Alejandro
Año de publicación
2020
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inglés
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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
Fuente
Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering 8 (2) : 31-34 (2020)
Materia
Vid
Viticultura
Cosecha
Costos
Grapevines
Viticulture
Harvesting
Costs
Dessert Grapes
Uvas de Mesa
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spelling Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvestEspindola, Rodrigo SebastianGennari, AlejandroVidViticulturaCosechaCostosGrapevinesViticultureHarvestingCostsDessert GrapesUvas de MesaIn 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 JuanFil: Espíndola, Rodrigo Sebastián. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria San Juan; ArgentinaFil: Gennari, Alejandro. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias; ArgentinaScience Publishing Group2020-08-11T18:45:13Z2020-08-11T18:45:13Z2020-08-10info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/7708http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=216&doi=10.11648/j.abb.20200802.152330-41542330-4162https://doi.org/10.11648/j.abb.20200802.15Advances in Bioscience and Bioengineering 8 (2) : 31-34 (2020)reponame:INTA Digital (INTA)instname:Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuariaenginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)2025-10-16T09:29:51Zoai:localhost:20.500.12123/7708instacron:INTAInstitucionalhttp://repositorio.inta.gob.ar/Organismo científico-tecnológicoNo correspondehttp://repositorio.inta.gob.ar/oai/requesttripaldi.nicolas@inta.gob.arArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:l2025-10-16 09:29:52.396INTA Digital (INTA) - Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuariafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest
title Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest
spellingShingle Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest
Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian
Vid
Viticultura
Cosecha
Costos
Grapevines
Viticulture
Harvesting
Costs
Dessert Grapes
Uvas de Mesa
title_short 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_sort Marginal and media productivity of labor on table grape harvest
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian
Gennari, Alejandro
author Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian
author_facet Espindola, Rodrigo Sebastian
Gennari, Alejandro
author_role author
author2 Gennari, Alejandro
author2_role author
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Vid
Viticultura
Cosecha
Costos
Grapevines
Viticulture
Harvesting
Costs
Dessert Grapes
Uvas de Mesa
topic Vid
Viticultura
Cosecha
Costos
Grapevines
Viticulture
Harvesting
Costs
Dessert Grapes
Uvas de Mesa
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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
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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