%0 Research article
%T Economic evaluation of container seedling packing and disinfection machinery
%A Rantala, Juho
%A Väätäinen, Kari
%A Kiljunen, Nuutti
%A Harstela, Pertti
%D 2003
%J Silva Fennica
%V 37
%N 1
%R doi:10.14214/sf.515
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/515
%X 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.