The Economics of Citrus Growing in Israel

absorptive capacity adjusted for effects agricultural alternative Ashqelon auction returns Blood oranges c.i.f. returns calculated cent of total CHAPTER citriculture citrus and cotton citrus area citrus exports citrus fruit citrus growing countries crop demand dunams of cotton economic Emek Hefer estimate expenditure export fruit f.o.b. costs f.o.b. Haifa f.o.b. price factors fertilizers foreign currency income foreign currency revenue fresh fruit Gross National Product growers Hadera harvest increase Insurance and freight irrigation irrigation water Israel citrus Joint Planning Centre juice land less marginal million monthly labour requirement packing house perfect competition period planted price behaviour processing production costs profitable purchasing power quantities regression equations Rehovot Relationship between f.o.b. REQUIREMENT OF CITRUS result rootstock season Second World War Shamouti and grapefruit shillings sold sour orange Source Spanish oranges standard statistics supplies sweet lime Table tons total revenue tree United Kingdom varieties volume of exports X₁