Making optimum use of labour as expensive production factor
2004
Luder, W.(Agroscope FAT Taenikon, Eidgenoessische Forschungsanstalt fuer Agrarwirtschaft und Landtechnik, Ettenhausen (Switzerland))
Agriculture is making increasingly efficient use of labour as scarce and expensive production factor. This is helped by technological progress and also by improvements in farm labour organisation. Despite the recorded growth in farm sizes, more and more farming families are managing to find extra working capacity for a secondary occupation. Research by the Labour Economics division at Agroscope FAT Taenikon has to keep pace with this trend in future. A new successor solution to the FAT work budget is therefore currently under development. The concept involves a logically integrated system comprising all the necessary basic data and mathematical models for detailed working time calculations through to the overall work budget. A number of modules within this system are already available, along with the corresponding labour economics data, and have proved themselves in practice. The task for the future will be gradually to add content to the whole system, to enable it to fulfil its role of a standard set of instruments for work planning and organisation, process comparisons, calculation of machine costs or compensations for farm tasks, for assessing the degree of disability of invalidity insurance patients, for checking standard manpower unit factors or for evaluating the physical workload in agricultural tasks.
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