1st Edition

Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture

By Michael Collinson Copyright 1983
    484 Pages
    by CRC Press

    484 Pages
    by CRC Press

    This book introduces an approach for farm management economists to apply their discipline, in a cost-effective way, to the development of peasant agriculture. It details the methods for implementing the system-level approach for farm management in East Africa.

    Also of Interest -- List of Activity Codes -- Preface -- Introduction -- Conditions in African Peasant Agriculture Affecting the Application of Farm Management Techniques -- The Farmer: His Motivational Balance and Farm Organization -- The Traditional Agricultural Sector -- The Economy: I. Infrastructural Conditions -- The Economy: II. Government Policy for Agricultural Development -- The Approach for Farm Economics -- The Investigation Phase -- The Planning and Investigation Tasks -- Building the Representative Farm Model -- General Attributes -- The Variable Attributes: Land -- The Variable Attributes: Labor -- The Variable Attributes: Capital and Livestock -- The Variable Attributes: Output -- Conclusions on Survey Organization and Design -- Planning Extension Strategy and Content -- The Planning Task in Relation to Adoption and Diffusion Research -- Preparing an Inventory of Available Farm Improvements -- The Planning Sequence: Constraints and Coefficients in Simulation -- The Planning Sequence: Setting the Objective for Extension Strategy -- The Planning Sequence: Selecting Extension Content over the Adoption Period -- Farm Management Economics in Traditional African Agriculture and Extension Organization -- Postscript