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1 online resource |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF ACTIVITY CODES; PREFACE; Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION; Notes; PART I: CONDITIONS IN AFRICAN PEASANT AGRICULTURE AFFECTING THE APPLICATION OF FARM MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES; Chapter 2 THE FARMER: HIS MOTIVATIONAL BALANCE AND FARM ORGANIZATION; Intercropping; Staggered Planting; Other Insurance Measures; Notes; Chapter 3 THE TRADITIONAL AGRICULTURAL SECTOR; The Structure of the Traditional Agricultural Sector; Influences on the Application of Farm Management Economics; The Size of the Production Unit |
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NotesChapter 4 THE ECONOMY: I. INFRASTRUCTURAL CONDITIONS; Improved Technology in Traditional Agriculture; Structural Change; System Reorganization; New Enterprises; Intensification; Extension of Scale; Effectiveness of Government-Sponsored Agricultural Research; Notes; Chapter 5 THE ECONOMY: ll. GOVERNMENT POLICY FOR AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; Notes; Chapter 6 THE APPROACH FOR FARM ECONOMICS; Extension; Planning; Investigation; PART II: THE INVESTIGATION PHASE; Chapter 7 THE PLANNING AND INVESTIGATION TASKS; Farm Classification |
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Climate and Soil Offering the Same Production Opportunities and Improvement PossibilitiesTribal Background; Man/Land Ratio; The Accuracy/Cost Compromise; Sampling Error; Memory Bias; Notes; Chapter 8 BUILDING THE REPRESENTATIVE FARM MODEL; Selection of a: Representative Farm; Cropping Pattern; Labor Supply and Use; Labor Profile; Scale; Output; Alternative Techniques for Synthesizing Representative Farm Models; Notes; Chapter 9 GENERAL ATTRIBUTES; Agronomic Data Requirements; Husbandry Practices; Soil Fertility of the System; Methods of Land Acquisition; Recent Changes in the Cropping Pattern |
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Data on Food Supply PatternsLimitations of Social Traditions on Resource Allocation; Land; Labor; Livestock; Notes; Chapter 10 THE VARIABLE ATTRIBUTES: LAND; Determination of Sample Size Standards; Sorghum in Maswa; Rice in Geita; Presurvey Investigation; Predefining Subpopulations; Allocating the Area; Grouping of Mixtures; Timing of Crop Acreage Recording; Fragmentation; Access to Plots; Survey Organization and Methods of Acreage Recording; Alternative Acreage Measurement Techniques; Pacing; Measuring Wheel; Tapes and Chains; Notes; Chapter 11 THE VARlABLE ATTRIBUTES: LABOR |
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The Concept and Treatment of Labor AvailabilityOff-Farm Commitments; Nonagricultural Activities; Specialization of Task by Sex or Age Group; Nutritional Constraints on Availability; Use of Hired Labor; Man-Equivalent Values as a Base for Interfarm Comparison of Labor Capacity; Investigation of Family Labor Availability and Labor Hire; Labor Use; Sources of Variation in Labor-Use Data; Crop and Operation; Soil Type, Cropping History, and Plot Size; Tools, Methods, and Group Specialization; Residual Variance; Cultivation, Weeding, Harvesting, and Processing; Cultivation; Weeding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Harvesting and Processing |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 18, 2020) |
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Africa
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Agriculture -- Economic aspects
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Africa
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429696275 |
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0429696272 |
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