TABLE 22.— Dried 



fruit: Calculated cost of processing and packing, 



San Rafael area, Mendoza Province, 1957 



season 









Prunes Peaches | 







D'Agen 



President 

 (pitted) 



Clings 1 



Freestone, 

 halves 



Pears 



Item 



Whole, pitted 



Whole, unpitted 







Processing: 



Pesos per 

 lb. of 

 dried 

 2.12 

 1.11 

 .07 

 .32 



Dol. per 

 lb. of 

 dried 



Pesos per 

 lb. of 

 dried 

 3.79 

 1.11 



.07 



.29 



.68 



Dol. per 

 lb. of 

 dried 



Pesos per 



lb. of 



dried 



6.80 



1.11 



.14 



1.34 



(M 



Dol. per 

 lb. of 



dried 



Pesos per 

 lb. of 

 dried 

 3.40 

 1.11 

 .09 

 .45 



Dol. per 

 lb. of 

 dried 



Pesos per 

 lb. of 

 dried 

 3.36 

 1.18 

 .09 

 .45 



Dol. per 

 lb. of 

 dried 



Pesos per 

 lb. of 

 dried 

 0.39 

 1.11 

 .14 

 1.00 



Dol. per 

 lb. of 

 dried 











— 





... 



Pitting 



... 



Total 



3.62 



0.10 



5.94 



0.156 



9.39 



0.247 



5.05 



0.133 



5.08 



0.134 



2.64 



0.070 



Classification and grading: 



.02 

 .34 



— 



.05 

 .31 



— 



.09 

 .73 



— 



.05 

 .27 



— 



.05 

 .23 







.05 

 .45 



... 



Labor 



... 



Total 



.36 



.009 



.36 



.009 



.82 



.022 



.32 



.008 



.28 



.007 



.50 



.013 



Packing: 

 Kbterials 



.27 

 .51 



— 



.30 

 .68 



— 



.27 



1.50 



— 



■ 



.23 

 .50 



— 



.23 



.68 



— 



.23 

 1.41 



... 



Labor 





Total 



.78 



.020 



.98 



.026 



1.77 



.047 



.73 



.019 



.91 



.024 



1.64 



.043 



Total cost f.o.b. plant 



4.76 



.130 



7.28 



.191 



11.98 



.316 



6.10 



.160 



6.27 



.165 



4.78 



.126 





.12 



.003 



.12 



.003 



.12 



.003 



.12 



.003 



.12 



.003 



.12 



.003 



Cost laid Buenos Aires 



4.88 



.133 



7.40 



.194 



12.10 



.319 



6.22 



.163 



6.39 



.168 



4.90 



.129 



'■ Cost of pitting Included in labor. 



Aires it may go to any of the local markets 

 or be loaded on trains for transport to other 

 parts of Argentina. Some, packed especially 

 for this purpose and about equivalent to a good 

 canning grade, may go to cold storage. In 

 storage it is held until the Rio Negro and Men- 

 doza fruit is no longer plentiful and Tigre fruit 

 again can find a market. 



Red Delicious and Jonathan are prominent 

 in the Delta but the major variety of apples 

 is Dirty Face, reported to be an excellent 

 cooking apple, high in iron content. It gets 

 this name from the fact that it always has 

 heavy russeting around the stenn and extending 

 down over one cheek. Williams pears are 

 grown in the Delta but not in as large a volume 

 as apples. Plums are the most popular fruit 

 as measured by numbers of trees. Peaches 

 and other stone fruits also are grown. The 

 known varieties such as Delicious and Wil- 

 liams are extremely variable and retain very 

 little of the characteristic appearance assoc- 

 iated with the variety. Most apples grown in 

 the Delta also are very poor in color. 



Delta fruit will never enter the export raar- 

 ket, so its major economic importance is in 

 supplying the domestic market. However, this 

 area is on the wane; fruit acreage is decreas- 

 ing annually, as nnany growers on islands 



TABLE 23. --Grapes: Calculated cost of packing for export, San Juan, 

 1952 and 1957 



Fresh grapes : 



Per pound 



Per lug 



Lug 



Paper 



Nails 



Label 



Labor (picking, packing, etc.) 



Loading and handling 



Cold storage 



Administrative costs 



Excelsior and crepe paper 



Export tax seals 



Total cost f.o.b. San Juan.. 



Freight to Buenos Aires 



Cost laid Buenos Aires 



Pesos 



per lug^ 



0.59 



16.90 



4.00 



.80 



.50 



.20 



6.00 



1.00 



1.50 



4.00 



.60 



.10 



35.60 



Dollars 

 per lug' 



0.44 

 .11 

 .02 

 .01 

 .005 

 .16 

 .03 

 .04 

 .11 

 .02 

 .002 



.95 



Pesos 

 per lug' 



1.59 



46.00 



4.50 



1.10 



.75 



.39 



6.50 



2.00 



3.90 



2.50 



.95 



.10 



68.69 



Dollars 

 per lug' 



1.21 

 .12 

 .03 

 .02 

 .01 

 .17 

 .05 

 .10 

 .07 

 .025 

 .002 



1.81 



28-pound lug. 



close to Tigre have sold their farms to others 

 who are developing tourist and vacation resorts. 

 This trend seems to be spreading. 



One grower in the Delta states that he has 

 22 hectares of orchards (54 acres) and fronn 

 this he grosses about 400,000 pesos per year 

 ($ 10, 800), of which 300,000 pesos (over $8,000) 

 is profit. These figures must be taken in the 

 light of the grower's lack of cost consciousness 



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