Mangas das cultivares `Keitt', `Tommy Atkins' e `Haden', infestadas por larvas de mosca do mediterrâneo, Ceratitis capitata (Wied.), foram submetidas ao tratamento hidrotérmico a 46,1ºC. Os frutos foram divididos em duas faixas de peso, de 450 a 650g e de 651 a 800g, tratados por um período de 75 e 90 minutos, respectivamente. Do total dos frutos infestados e imersos em água quente, 75% foram avaliados visando quantificar o total de larvas mortas, os 25% restantes foram mantidos como controle. Nos frutos infestados por larvas de 1º e 2º estádio, a mortalidade foi de 100%. Nos testes com larvas de 3º estádio houve sobrevivência de quatro e três adultos em frutos com pesos acima de 540g e de 730 g nos tempos de imersão de 75 e 90 minutos, respectivamente.
The main objective of this study was to identify and analyze the sources of inefficiency in family operated small agricultural properties in the Brazilian state of Bahia’s Recôncavo region from a sample of 44 producers. A non-parametric approach, in the context of cost minimizing behavior under constant returns to scale, was used to estimate the indices of technical, scale, allocative, and total (economic or cost) efficiency. Results indicated that the largest source small family farm inefficiency in the Recôncavo region is allocative inefficiency, that is to say, the non-observance of price relationships when making production decisions. On the average, 79.1% of these farms’ total inefficiency is due to allocative inefficiency, 9.3% to technical inefficiency, and 11.7% to scale inefficiency
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