Commercialization of Small Scale Agriculture: Cash Crop Production Effect on Household Welfare, Technical Efficiency and Power Relation of the Family in the Case of Were Baye Tabia of Raya Azebo District in Southern Tigray

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taddese Mezgebo ◽  
Menasbo Gebru Tesfay ◽  
Tewelde Mezgobo
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Household Welfare ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Production Effect ◽  
The Family

scholarly journals Agricultural Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia: A Stochastic Frontier Approach

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 246
Author(s):  
Markose Chekol Zewdie ◽  
Michele Moretti ◽  
Daregot Berihun Tenessa ◽  
Zemen Ayalew Ayele ◽  
Jan Nyssen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Stochastic Frontier Approach ◽  
Small Scale Irrigation

In the past decade, to improve crop production and productivity, Ethiopia has embarked on an ambitious irrigation farming expansion program and has introduced new large- and small-scale irrigation initiatives. However, in Ethiopia, poverty remains a challenge, and crop productivity per unit area of land is very low. Literature on the technical efficiency (TE) of large-scale and small-scale irrigation user farmers as compared to the non-user farmers in Ethiopia is also limited. Investigating smallholder farmers’ TE level and its principal determinants is very important to increase crop production and productivity and to improve smallholder farmers’ livelihood and food security. Using 1026 household-level cross-section data, this study adopts a technology flexible stochastic frontier approach to examine agricultural TE of large-scale irrigation users, small-scale irrigation users and non-user farmers in Ethiopia. The results indicate that, due to poor extension services and old-style agronomic practices, the mean TE of farmers is very low (44.33%), implying that there is a wider room for increasing crop production in the study areas through increasing the TE of smallholder farmers without additional investment in novel agricultural technologies. Results also show that large-scale irrigation user farmers (21.05%) are less technically efficient than small-scale irrigation user farmers (60.29%). However, improving irrigation infrastructure shifts the frontier up and has a positive impact on smallholder farmers’ output.

scholarly journals A Systematic Literature Review on Cash Crop Production

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Ja,afaru Yusuf Dogara ◽  
Hamidin Abd Hamid
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Small Holders ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Crop Sustainability

Works of literature have clearly attested to the fact that cash crop production as a global phenomenon has a track of history. Past and contemporary scholars on economics, agriculture, and history show little commitment to the subject matter of cash crop production globally. Related studies are reviewed in order to develop sensible solutions and add value to the limited sources on the area (finding). Thus, this research aims at a systematic literature review of relevant literature on cash crop production. Literature that relates to the subject matter is assembled, examined, and incorporated according to the need of this systematic literature review. We focus on the studies that encompass cash crop sustainability, cash crop smallholders/small-scale/households, cash crop farming/farmers, cash crop and food production, groundnut production, sustainable groundnut production, groundnut seed production, groundnut small-holders farmers, and contribution, impact, and the role of groundnut production on the economy. 

Households and the political economy of small-scale cash crop production in south-western Nigeria

Africa ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 807-823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
West Africa ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Political Economies ◽  
Opening Paragraph

Opening ParagraphThe emergence of small-scale cash crop producers throughout West Africa is of central importance to those historians, anthropologists and sociologists who are working on change in the political economies of various parts of West Africa.

scholarly journals Gendered and Contextual Factors in the Design of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Programs for Tomato Growers in East Africa

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 56 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Wairimu Mwangi ◽  
J. Mark Erbaugh ◽  
Kallunde Sibuga ◽  
Amon Maerere ◽  
Monica Waiganjo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Integrated Pest Management ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
East Africa ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Cash Crop ◽  
Tomato Production

The Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Collaborative Research Support Program in East Africa has been using a farmer participatory IPM strategy with small-scale tomato growers at on-farm research sites in Kenya and Tanzania since 2004. Understanding local farmer knowledge of agricultural production, including both gendered and contextual factors, is a hallmark of participatory approaches, and important to the design and development of appropriate location-specific IPM technologies. The purpose of this study was to compare and contrast gender and contextual influences on tomato production farm-level decision-making and marketing practices. The results indicate that regardless of context, gender influenced access to resources and this influenced production quantity and decision-making. However, contextual differences predominated suggesting that “one-size does not fit all” and that planned interventions need to be tailored to specific contexts in which gender relations unfold. Contextual similarities in the production of higher value marketed horticultural crops, including female cash crop production and the prevalent use of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, provides evidence that the gender-specific nature of traditional African farming is transitioning. That extension agents were relatively minor sources of information suggests that horticultural cash crop production is an important contextual basis for differentiating the demand for IPM programs.

Knowledge, attitudes and practice of family planning: profile of a Bedouin community in Saudi Arabia

1974 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 453-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zohair A. Sebai
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Family Planning ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Or History

SummaryFamily planning is not being practised in Wadi Turaba in western Saudi Arabia, which is a Bedouin community with different stages of settlement. Children are wanted in the family, and the more children, especially boys, the better the social status of the family in the community. The desire of a mother for more children does not appear to be affected by her age group, history of previous marriages or history of previous pregnancies.Knowledge about contraceptives practically does not exist, except on a small scale in the settled community. Every woman, following the Koranic teachings, weans her child exactly at the age of 2 years, which obviously leads to the spacing of births. In rather rare situations, coitus interruptus is practised.

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