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A Model of Crop Selection in Semi-subsistence Agriculture and an Application to Mixed Agriculture in Fiji

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  • A. John De Boer
  • Satish Chandra

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The vast majority of the world's farmers operate as semi-subsistence producers. Models of fully subsistence agriculture are modified to allow a two-goods analysis of cash crop and staple crop production. A further extension allows comparisons between two groups of farmers possessing different production functions for their respective staple crops. Production possibility curves are constructed for each group of farmers and an empirical test formulated. Empirical results confirmed the hypothesized behavioral relationships which would give rise to the observed differences in resource allocation and resource productivity between Indian and Fijian farmers operating within a similar agricultural environment.

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  • A. John De Boer & Satish Chandra, 1978. "A Model of Crop Selection in Semi-subsistence Agriculture and an Application to Mixed Agriculture in Fiji," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 60(3), pages 436-444.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:60:y:1978:i:3:p:436-444.
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    1. Allen, James E. IV, 2014. "Determinants of Land Allocation in a Multi-Crop Farming System: An Application of the Fractional Multinomial Logit Model to Agricultural Households in Mali," 2014 Annual Meeting, July 27-29, 2014, Minneapolis, Minnesota 170175, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    2. Zhongwei Xing, 2018. "Development Impacts of Remittances in Agricultural Households: Fiji Experience," Remittances Review, Remittances Review, vol. 3(1), pages 19-49, May.
    3. Staal, Steven J. & Davis, Carlton George, 1992. "Effects of Resource Constraints on the Production Systems and Earnings Potential of Small Farm Households in the West Province of Cameroon," Farm and Business - The Journal of the Caribbean Agro-Economic Society, Caribbean Agro-Economic Society, vol. 1(2), pages 1-32, September.

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