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Harvesting Policies For Tea in Malawi

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

R. W. Palmer-Jones
R. W. Palmer-Jones
Affiliation:
Institute of Agricultural Economics, University of Oxford, England
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Summary

The information collected from an experiment on tea, in which two plucking intervals and three plucking standards were imposed, allowed analysis of the effects on the total value of output (Cloughley et al., 1983; Cloughley, 1983). The analysis can be extended and its practical relevance improved by incorporating harvesting and manufacturing costs. Using information collected in another experiment and readily available economic information the effects of incorporating these costs are presented. A method of simultaneously determining optimal plucking interval and standard is described.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 21 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 357 - 368
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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