Juho Rantala , Kari Väätäinen, Nuutti Kiljunen, Pertti Harstela

Economic evaluation of container seedling packing and disinfection machinery

Rantala J., Väätäinen K., Kiljunen N., Harstela P. (2003). Economic evaluation of container seedling packing and disinfection machinery. Silva Fennica vol. 37 no. 1 article id 515. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.515

Abstract

Productivity and costs of packing container seedlings were studied in a mechanised line for packing and disinfecting seedling trays. The hypothesis was that adequate cost-efficiency could be achieved when some common principles of mechanisation were applied. Results indicated that the unit costs are lower than those of manual packing, if these principles were applied and the annual number of packed seedlings exceeded 6 million. However, most of the nurseries in Finland are still too small to gain a real advantage from large-scale production.

Keywords
economies of scale; nursery technology; mechanisation; container seedlings; packing;

Received 24 October 2001 Accepted 13 December 2002 Published 31 December 2003

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