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April 1987

Two decades of productivity growth in poultry dressing and processing

Ziaul Z. Ahmed, Mark Sieling

Since 1963, this industry has witnessed varying degrees of productivity improvements, new processing techniques, and changes in demand; the largest increase in output per employee hour occurred in the early 1980s

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