MEASURING ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY IN THE FLORICULTURE PRODUCTION VALUE CHAIN

• Sponsoring Institution: Agricultural Research Service/USDA
• Project Status: ACTIVE
• Funding Source: USDA COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 0425393
• Project Start Date: Aug 15, 2013
• Project End Date: Aug 14, 2018
• Program Code: [(N/A)]- (N/A)

Recipient Organization
TEXAS AGRILIFE EXTENSION SERVICE
112 JACK K WILLIAMS ADMIN
COLLEGE STATION,TX 77843-0001

Performing Department
(N/A)

Non Technical Summary
(N/A)

Animal Health Component

20%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

80%

Applied

20%

Developmental

0%

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
102	1499	1020	10%
102	2122	1160	45%
102	2123	1020	45%

Knowledge Area
102 - Soil, Plant, Water, Nutrient Relationships;

Subject Of Investigation
1499 - Vegetables, general/other; 2123 - Bedding/garden plants; 2122 - Potted plants;

Field Of Science
1160 - Pathology; 1020 - Physiology;

Keywords

economic

feasibility

partial

budgeting

cost/benefit

analysis

Goals / Objectives
The scope of our research will be from propagation of the seed or unrooted cutting through to a finished plant at retail. Experiments will be conducted to improve resource use efficiency at each step of production and distribution. This knowledge will be integrated into a model to determine economic feasibility. This information will be packaged in grower decision-support tools to allow grower use in the field.

Project Methods
Partial budgeting modeling procedures will be used to measure the profitability of short-run changes in cultural practices in the production and postproduction systems analyzed. This technique has been largely used when comparing two or more similar systems. Usually the comparison is between a benchmark system and one or more alternatives. All systems under comparison must face the same conditions, the same fixed costs, and only vary in explicitly specified components.