ISHS Acta Horticulturae 97: VI Symposium on Horticultural Economics
INVESTMENTS IN THE HORTICULTURAL SECTOR |
| Author: | A. Kempenaers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Abstract:
Horticulture is both a labor and capital intensive sector. Only on the mixed farms - horticulture combined with agriculture and livestock - and on fruit farms, the average size of farm is larger. This has its impact on the labour input and capital investment per ha as can be seen from table 1. Table 1 - Average record data for the year 1977(7B)
Throughout the last years mechanisation and a more perfect farm equipement contributed to an ever increasing labor productivity. In order to keep down increasing costs of labor, land and other expensive means of production, many horticultural farmers expanded farm size to safeguard their income level. To obtain this size increase and to keep up with advanced technics enormous investments most of them with the aid of loans had to be made in practically all branches of specialisation. In order to keep the production apparatus competitive many investments are now to be replaced before they can even be written off. In table 2 the investments per ha for the different sectors are shown specified according their destination (land excluded). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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