The Southeastern Vegetable Processing Industry

Excerpt from The Southeastern Vegetable Processing Industry: Location and Number of Plants, Composition, Volume, and Value of Pack, 1960 Canners packed approximately 11 million case equivalents of fresh vegetables with an at-plant-value of $32 milliono Ninety=six million pounds of finished vegetable product were frozen with a value of $15 milliono Combined gross revenue to the canning and freezing industries was $47 million. Deducting the cost of vegetable raw product and the estimated cost of packaging materials from gross returns, the value added in 1960 by the vegetable processing industry was estimated at $1808 million, The ratio of value added to returns from finished product was 037 for canners and 043 for freezers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.