Analisi micro economica in olivicoltura

ANALYSIS MICROECONOMIC IN OLIVE GROWING The Italian olive industry is undergoing a structural crisis, and despite the continuing increase in world demand, oil prices on international markets remain at low levels with often unsatisfactory results for the domestic producers. The limited size of olive groves, the location of many in sloping terrain, the limited renewal of plants, agronomic management is not always best represent some of the limiting factors. In the pursuit of cost effectiveness and aware of the potential production of many national intensive olive groves, we should define patterns productive reference to suggest what is considered the reference technique, able to optimize yields and incomes. The estimate of production costs and income arising from it is a useful element of judgment for the manufacturer is in comparison with its cost of production, both for the analysis of the differences between technologies be adopted with respect to production areas. In conclusion, the present work, to the purely technical side, we propose a scheme for determining the profitability of olive production in easy to understand and design: the same scheme and the proposed technique represents the reference to which the grower may confront in both technical and economic, by adapting the model to calculate your company and its production process and determining , so the costs of production and the economic margin achieved. Aware of the strong heterogeneity of the national olive groves , the manufacturing environment, in this paper refers to intensive and traditional olive groves in two geographical areas with a strong connotation olive: Umbria and the areal production for the northern and the southern Puglia. The scheme proposed costing maintains the right balance between analytical and synthesis, going at a flat rate to estimate the cost items can not be determined by technology and influenced by the nature of the enterprise, as they are defined , with a sufficient degree of accuracy and adaptability, the direct costs of the olive-growing practice. A further reading filter is represented by the business form that conditions indirectly , together with the size of the production process, the production technique and the manner of performance of the main operations. It should be noted that the proposals in key technical and economic investment provides neither new nor radical actions or interventions (reform of the olive and / or replanting ) that have a multi-year, but suggests solutions and short-term adaptations, which do not involve costs additional direct and indirect: for example, canopy management , the timing and collection system are clear of the technical options, which have strong economic implications should be carefully evaluated in the objective of maximizing profitability. In light of the above, the intensive cultivation of olives and traditional shows clearly its earnings potential, representing a productive quality, alternative and not in competition with mass production at low cost.