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The survival of the black tobacco farmer: Empirical results and policy dilemmas

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  • Michael Schulman
  • Barbara Newman

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Panel data from a survey of small-scale farmers in the North Carolina Piedmont are used to investigate the survival of black smallholders. Results of a multivariate analysis show that owning tobacco quota and having high gross farm income, high amounts of on-farm household labor and small household size increase the propensity to survive in agriculture. Over the five-year period studied, approximately 50 percent of the original respondents were no longer actively operating farms. These results point to the complex problems that policies designed to assist minority and small-scale farmers must address. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991

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  • Michael Schulman & Barbara Newman, 1991. "The survival of the black tobacco farmer: Empirical results and policy dilemmas," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 8(3), pages 46-52, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:8:y:1991:i:3:p:46-52
    DOI: 10.1007/BF01591842
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