New panel data from India are used to examine the relationship between farm size and productivity based on a model incorporating agency costs favoring family workers, scaledependent returns to mechanization arising from the fact that a larger contiguous land area is better-suited for high-capacity machinery, and falling credit costs with owned land. The model provides guidance for imputing the ...

this study examined the influence of socioeconomic variables of farmers on their choice of cassava varieties in kogi state of nigeria. a total of 360 cassava farmers were selected through multi-stage random sampling procedure. data collected through structured questionnaire were analyzed using descriptive statistics, customer-buying behavioral model and dynamic programming model. the results sh...

U.S. Rep. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, has introduced a leading contender in the 1995 farm bill debate. Under the Freedom to Farm Act (FFA), farmers who have participated in farm programs during three of the past five years would be eligible to enter into a sevenyear contract with the federal government. Through these contracts, farmers would receive an ...

This special issue contributes to the development economics literature by highlighting role of information communication and technologies (ICTs) in supporting rural agricultural development. It is comprised nine papers. Key findings from this include: (1) internet use increases consumption diversity productivity; (2) smartphone empowers women household decision-making off-farm work participatio...

In this study, we used the probit model to find out determinants of access formal credit and then applied Cobb–Douglas production function examine impact on sugarcane productivity. To elicit choice consequence productivity, divided farmers into two groups: borrowers nonborrowers. A total sample comprised 120 growers from Badin District—rich in production—Sindh, Pakistan. For analysis purposes, ...