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A guide to marketing costs and how to calculate them


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Prepared by Andrew W. Shepherd

Marketing and Rural Finance Service
Agricultural Services Division

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome 1993

Reprinted 1996

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction

What are marketing costs and why do they vary?

Produce preparation and packaging costs

Handling costs

Transport costs

Product losses

Storage costs

Processing costs

Capital costs

A marketing cost calculation

Marketing margins

Endnotes