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WRRCTM No. 38 Some Evidence of Economics of Scale in Hawaiian Sugar Plantations

ScholarSpace at University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Title WRRCTM No. 38 Some Evidence of Economics of Scale in Hawaiian Sugar Plantations
Creator Moncur, James E.T.
Subject Sugar plantations -- Hawaii. Technical memorandum report.
Description Of the major sectors in Oahu's economy, sugar growing and milling together use by far the largest quantities of water. The three plantations still operating on Oahu in 1971 accounted for 57 percent of total withdrawals, even though this percentage has steadily declined over the past decade or longer. A persistent trend among plantations, moreover, is for mergers to occur, presumably to take advantage of economies of scale. This study was undertaken to inquire into the effect of scale on sugar... OWRR Project No. A-026-HI, Grant Agreement No. 14-31-0001-3211.
Date 2010-10-04T21:54:17Z 2010-10-04T21:54:17Z 1974-01
Type Report Text
Identifier Moncur JET. 1974. Some evidence of economics of scale in Hawaiian sugar plantations. Honolulu (HI): Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa. WRRC technical memorandum, 38. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/18118
Relation WRRC Technical Memoranda 38
Format vi + 45 pages application/pdf
Publisher Water Resources Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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