Study 03
Modeled result
Study ID: CHRS 03
Research question
Under the thesis assumptions, can cascara sales cover the costs of handling and drying it?
Location and scope: Puerto Rico · modeled case study.
Principal site: Copper Hill, Las Marías & Maricao, Puerto Rico (modeled case study) · Academic context: master’s thesis, Harvard Extension School
Approach and context
The thesis examined the costs and revenues of drying and selling cascara. Its regenerative scenario with cascara sales returned a modeled mean ten-year net present value of −$32,644 per hectare, below the regenerative baseline without additional biomass sales.
- Classification
- Modeling and process development
- Research domain
- Agricultural Economics
- Research site
- Copper Hill Farm, Las Marías & Maricao, Puerto Rico
What the record supports
Follow-on process questions concern fractionation and how to handle wet pulp. The thesis result applies to its case assumptions.
Read the full thesis on Harvard DASH
Thesis result published; process-development work summarized separately.