HOW TO SELL FRESH PRODUCE TO SUPERMARKET CHAINS

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DRAWING THE PROFILE OF EFFICIENT FOOD INDUSTRIES-VERTICAL INTEGRATION, ECONOMIES OF SCALE, AND LOCATION ADVANTAGES IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF PRODUCTS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE GREEK FOOD INDUSTRY

A stochastic frontier production function that incorporates a model for technical inefficiency effects is used to investigate the industrial production of Greek food industries. Panel data comes from 29 Greek firms in 1988 through 1992. Parameters considered in the model for inefficiency effects include the degree of vertical integration, capital intensity, location, and time. A translog stochastic frontier function is estimated simultaneously with those variables in the model for inefficiency effects. The results indicate that technical efficiency among the firms ranges from 42 percent to 99 percent. More efficient firms are those with a higher degree of vertical integration that are located in rural areas and have sufficient investment in human capital to exploit the economies of scale obtained through investment in fixed capital. Most firms improve their performance over time, reducing the efficiency gap.Agribusiness,

State Earned Income Tax Credits and “Making Work Pay”: How Maine Might Help Workers

Established in 1975, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) became the federal government’s largest antipoverty program for citizens under the age of 65 by the mid-1990s. In this article, Glenn Beamer gives a brief overview of how the program works and how states have piggybacked on the federal EITC to further assist their working poor. He observes that Maine’s EITC policy does not fully avail itself of potential returns and points to other states with policies that provide greater benefits for the working poor. He suggests that expanding Maine’s EITC not only would provide working Mainers with extra income, but also would direct resources to parts of the state that are struggling economically

Central Coast High School Student Scholarship Fundraiser

Central Coast Continuation High School (CCCHS or CCHS) is designed around the philosophy of giving students in danger of not graduating a second chance at a diploma with alternative education strategies. The problem this Capstone aims to remedy is that many of these students cannot access college for a variety of reasons after graduating high school. These students are stigmatized for attending a continuation school, are in low socio-economic (SES) brackets, and lack scholarship access - these issues prevent college access. Consequences of this problem include future lack of access to higher paying jobs, loss of societal potential, and continuing the cycle of poverty these students often currently inhabit. The project itself is a blueprint for a yearly scholarship fundraiser for CCHS to give out to their students to improve college access. For the 2020-21 school year, CCHS can and should implement this scholarship fundraiser as soon as possible in order to best serve their student population

Qualitative Analysis of Corequisite Instruction in a Quantitative Reasoning Course

In corequisite models of instruction, marginally prepared students are placed directly into college-level coursework, taught with a paired support course. Initial research suggests that such models yield significant improvements in the number of students passing credit-level mathematics when compared to previous models of prerequisite remediation. The present study employs qualitative methods to investigate methods of instruction at one community colleges to understand how instructors identify and respond to student needs. It concludes with recommendations for practice and highlights advantages of small format corequisite classes taught by the same instructor