Farm Management In Peasant Agriculture

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