 Air Transport of Agricultural PerishablesWorking Group on Conversion of Marketing Facilities and Methods, Interbureau Committee on Postwar Programs No 333348, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture Abstract: Excerpts from the report: The tremendous increase in the production of planes and the training of personnel to meet the demands of war created both a problem and an opportunity for the aircraft industry—a problem of adjusting the industry to peacetime requirements and an opportunity to develop the usefulness of the airplane in commercial transport far in excess of its prewar use. The potential usefulness of the airplane for the transportation of agricultural commodities cannot be measured solely in the tonnage of perishables it may carry. Many agricultural commodities now being transported by surface carriers will be hauled by the airplane unless the surface carriers improve the techniques and equipment they are now using. New improvements in equipment and better handling methods by the surface carriers probably will be adopted at an accelerated rate if the airlines threaten to capture a substantial part of their tonnage. As a pace setter for the transportation industry the airplane may benefit producers and consumers more indirectly than directly. Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; International Relations/Trade; Marketing; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:usdami:333348 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture |
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