Economic feasibility of different packaging types for fresh oranges consumption: a study of multi cases in the São Paulo state. / Viabilidade econômica de diferentes tipos de embalagens para laranja de mesa: um estudo de multicasos no Estado de São Paulo.

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2004

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This current study aims to identify the most feasible type of packages for fresh oranges, produced and commercialized in the São Paulo state. In order to do so, three studies of specific cases were considered, under the context of multi cases. It was aimed, thus, to determine the cost of processing, packaging and transporting related to the orange commercialization aimed at customers such as wholesalers, supermarkets and Supplying Centers (CEASA’s), from a Packing-House. To evaluate the costs involved in this process, it was considered as a form of measurement the amount of orange carried by a truck (12,040 kg), in different levels of refusal (15%, 20%, 25%, 30% and 35%), coming from the producing unit up to the Packing-House. Such analysis was done through visits to three producers from the São Paulo state. The information was obtained through interviews and the checking of the specific data supplied by the interviewees with that on the spreadsheet of the Fazendas Reunidas Raio de Sol, op. cit., p.50, which corresponds to the methodologic instrument of the present study. Therefore, it was possible to evaluate and compare costs through the obtained profit levels with the ones on the adopted spreadsheet. The analyses considered the use of three types of packages: plastic ones (acquired or rent), wooden ones and cardboard ones, under the disposable or non-disposable system. Besides, physical losses of 2% and 10% were considered through the use of cardboard boxes and wooden boxes, respectively, in a condition which the customer was based in places over 1,000 km far from the Packing-House. The results presented and analyzed in this study allowed to indicate that, in general terms, there is no package more feasible economically speaking, considering its use. What was really observed was that there is a package that is more feasible for each producer considering his specific characteristics, such as: forms of freight negotiations with the customer, the payment of taxes related to transportation, loss levels related to the use of determined packages in long distances, variations of the fruit prices sold to the customer and to the industry, values related to the processing, arbitrage and taxes of financial discounts (according to the type of supermarket). With the use of the spreadsheet of the Fazendas Reunidas Raio de Sol, op. cit., p.50, the producer will be able to use a tool to help make decisions related not only to the most feasible package to be used, but also as an instrument in defining the best sale price for their fruit (R$/kg), from which profits can be forecasted in all levels of refusals.

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tyransporte viabilidade econômica beneficiamento packging agricultural trade laranja sanitary vigilance exportação transport orange comércio agricola processing economic feasibility vigilância sanitária exportation economic cost custo econômico embalagem

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