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Container Procurement by Cooperative Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Packers

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  • Mather, J. Warren

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Excerpts from the report: Several hundred cooperatives pack and market a wide variety of fresh fruits and vegetables each year. For these operations, they purchase a substantial quantity of containers and packaging supplies for their own use, and some also buy quantities for member-growers who pack and ship their own products. These associations require a variety of types and sizes of such items as paperboard cartons; wooden boxes, crates, baskets, and the like; burlap, cotton, and plastic bags; and wraps, fillers, liners, and labels. The specific objectives of this project were to: 1. Analyze and evaluate the present system that marketing cooperatives use in purchasing and manufacturing containers and packaging supplies for fresh fruit and vegetables; and 2. Determine possible methods of effecting savings or improving services in the procurement of such containers and packaging supplies.

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  • Mather, J. Warren, 1968. "Container Procurement by Cooperative Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Packers," Farmer Cooperative Research Report (FCRR) 314174, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersfc:314174
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.314174
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