Not all farmers are the identical

Not all farmers are the identical

Smallholder agriculture involves very exceptional producers, varying inside the assets and technologies they’ve get right of entry to to and are capable of efficaciously make use of, as well as through the determinants in their manufacturing and intake selections. These consist of household dependency ratios, get entry to to off-farm employment, production and marketplace risks, and the markets to which they are able to sell.

Depending on their nature and context, farm families going through comparable incentives may make distinct choices. Three sets of factors seem to steer farmers’ inclination to increase manufacturing for sale:

• get right of entry to to, and productiveness of assets, consisting of herbal sources, labour and capital, will determine their ability and willingness to do so;