A detailed breakdown of individual items processed by the 47 coopera- 

 tive fruit and vegetable processors in 1969 appears in Appendix table 1, 



Facilities 



One purpose of the study was to indicate the location of cooperative 

 processors. This can aid individual cooperatives in exploring the 

 possibility for exchanging use of facilities. 



The Western States had 51 percent of the owned processing facilities 

 and 48 percent of the owned storage facilities (Table 3). The Eastern 

 States had 34 percent of the owned processing facilities and 47 percent 

 of the owned storage facilities. The Western States had 50 percent of 

 the leased storage facilities, while the Central States had 33 percent 

 and the Eastern States 17 percent. 



Table 3. --Location of owned and leased facilities by geographic 



regions, 47 fruit and vegetable processing cooperatives, 

 1968-69 



Geographic 

 region 



: Owned 

 : Processing!/ 



facilities 



: Storage^/ 



:Leased 

 : faci! 



storage 

 Lities 





Number 



Percent 



Number 



Percent 



Number 



Percent 



Eastern States 



42 



34 





9 



47 



4 



17 



Central States 



18 



15 





1 



5 



8 



33 



Western States 



62 



51 





9 



48 



12 



50 



Totals 



122 



100 





19 



100 



24 



100 



_1/ Processing facilities usually had storage facilities at the same 



location, 

 _2/ Storage facilities were listed when location was different from 



processing facilities. 



The location of processing facilities owned by the 47 fruit and veg- 

 etable processors participating in the survey, by State, appears in 

 Figure 1, Such facilities usually include storage facilities adjacent 

 to the processing plant . 



Almost one-third of the processing facilities were in California, 13 

 percent in New York, 11 percent in Oregon, and 10 percent in Washing- 

 ton, 



