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Determinants of off-farm labor supply among farm households in the north Willamette ValleyDoyle, Douglas J., 1963- 10 August 1987 (has links)
Financial stress in agriculture has been a concern over the past
century. Agrarian values and "love of the land" seem to yield public
conclusions for the support of the industry. Much of this support is
in the interest of preserving a viable food producing sector in an
volatile world climate. High interest rates, declining land values
and highly competitive export markets have spurred renewed concern
for farm survival in the past ten years.
One alternative to traditional price supports and tariffs for
farm household support is off-farm income. This may take many forms
including off-farm wages and salaries, rental income, interest and
dividend income and, retirement or pension funds. Central to the
analysis of nonfarm income generation is the allocation of time by
farm households. For farmers who place a high value on the farm
lifestyle, occupational choice is embedded in the time decision to
such an extent that the resource allocations based on economic efficiency
criteria may be altered.
Tobit techniques offer a new approach to the analysis of farm
household decisions on time allocation. The procedure allows the investigator
to estimate and evaluate parameters that may affect the
amount of off-farm work by farm household members. The Tobit
analysis is designed for censored data sets. The data in this study
were censored because there were missing observations on the quantity
of off-farm work for those individuals who did not work off-farm in
1986.
Results of Tobit analyses of off-farm work by farm operators and
spouses in three Oregon counties indicated that high levels of gross
farm income reduce the likelihood and extent of off-farm work.
Middle-aged operators worked off-farm more while the presence of
small children and elderly dependents in the farm household inhibited
off-farm work. The allocation decisions of the spouse and the
operator appeared to be independent; this supports a nonsimultaneous
Tobit specification like the one used in this research. / Graduation date: 1988
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How does nonfarm income affect inequality in rural China : evidence from provncial panel data / Evidence from provincial panel dataWang, Xin Yu January 2011 (has links)
University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Economics
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Methodologies to assess income, consumption, and the impacts of livestock on household food security /Sheikh, Dekha January 2000 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2000. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 216-221). Also available on the Internet.
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Finance, Forests, and the FutureDavis, Eric C. January 2021 (has links)
No description available.
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Factors affecting agricultural production in Tigray Region, Northern EthiopiaBihon Kassa Abrha 07 1900 (has links)
This study investigates the factors affecting agricultural production of farm households in the National Regional State of Tigray, Ethiopia. The major primary sources of data for the study were farm household surveys, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. The study revealed that the annual average crop production of respondents was found to be below the standard annual food requirement recommended by the international organizations. The proportion of irrigated land to total cultivated land was only 11per cent. The proportion of irrigated land in the two districts is lower than 11.27 per cent at the regional level. The utilization of chemical fertilizers for the majority of the respondents was below the recommended standard for the region. Although the farmers were interested in using improved seeds, the supplied varieties were not based on their preferences. Extension agents were mainly engaged in activities which were not related to their professions. The farm income model result showed that landholding size (p<0.0001), possession of oxen(p<0.0001), amount of fertilizer(p=0.010), improved seeds(p=0.002), irrigation(p=0.028), soil quality(p=0.019), village distance to the district market(p=0.066), average distance of plots from the homestead (p=0.023) and crop rotation(p=0.016) were determinant variables. Farmers were engaged in off-farm activities to fulfill the cash requirements in credit constrained conditions. The laws of the region do not allow farmers to be out of their localities for more than two years and the farmerswere restricted to renting out only half of their land. This discouraged farmers from off-farm participation for fear of land confiscation. In the Probit model, the determinant variables of off-farm participation were: irrigation (p=0.001), age (p=0.007), amount of money borrowed (p=0.078), village distance to the wereda market (p=0.055), fear of land confiscation (p=0.023) and access to electricity (p=0.044).
It is recommended that if farmers are to use chemical fertilizers, they should be supplied with High Yielding Varieties (HYV)and enough water through access to irrigation. Furthermore, farmers should be allowed to have long term off-farm employment to augment the farming sector. / Development Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Development Studies)
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Factors affecting agricultural production in Tigray Region, Northern EthiopiaBihon Kassa Abrha 07 1900 (has links)
This study investigates the factors affecting agricultural production of farm households in the National Regional State of Tigray, Ethiopia. The major primary sources of data for the study were farm household surveys, focus group discussions and key informant interviews. The study revealed that the annual average crop production of respondents was found to be below the standard annual food requirement recommended by the international organizations. The proportion of irrigated land to total cultivated land was only 11per cent. The proportion of irrigated land in the two districts is lower than 11.27 per cent at the regional level. The utilization of chemical fertilizers for the majority of the respondents was below the recommended standard for the region. Although the farmers were interested in using improved seeds, the supplied varieties were not based on their preferences. Extension agents were mainly engaged in activities which were not related to their professions. The farm income model result showed that landholding size (p<0.0001), possession of oxen(p<0.0001), amount of fertilizer(p=0.010), improved seeds(p=0.002), irrigation(p=0.028), soil quality(p=0.019), village distance to the district market(p=0.066), average distance of plots from the homestead (p=0.023) and crop rotation(p=0.016) were determinant variables. Farmers were engaged in off-farm activities to fulfill the cash requirements in credit constrained conditions. The laws of the region do not allow farmers to be out of their localities for more than two years and the farmerswere restricted to renting out only half of their land. This discouraged farmers from off-farm participation for fear of land confiscation. In the Probit model, the determinant variables of off-farm participation were: irrigation (p=0.001), age (p=0.007), amount of money borrowed (p=0.078), village distance to the wereda market (p=0.055), fear of land confiscation (p=0.023) and access to electricity (p=0.044).
It is recommended that if farmers are to use chemical fertilizers, they should be supplied with High Yielding Varieties (HYV)and enough water through access to irrigation. Furthermore, farmers should be allowed to have long term off-farm employment to augment the farming sector. / Development Studies / D. Litt. et Phil. (Development Studies)
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Mobile Phone Technologies and their Impacts on Household Welfare and Rural Development in UgandaSekabira, Haruna Ahmad 29 June 2017 (has links)
No description available.
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