A management study of glasshouse vegetable cropping in Auckland

Abstract

This study was initiated by the New Zealand Vegetable Growers' Federation with the objective of documenting factors pertinent to success in glasshouse vegetable growing in the Auckland area. This report should not be seen as an economic study of glasshouse cropping. That is extrapolation of these results to the whole of the Auckland industry would be invalid. The time and budget available, and the lack of suitable statistics made it impossible to draw a sample representative of the whole industry. Objectives of the Study So far as is known to the author no previous comprehensive studies have been published in New Zealand on the financial results from glasshouse cropping.The objective of this study was to attempt to explain the causes of variation in financial results between businesses.