Agricultural competitiveness factors

Mauritius and Senegal

Malick Ndiaye (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

68 Seiten

2023
Our Knowledge Publishing (Verlag)
978-620-6-01915-2 (ISBN)

Infos

The objective of this study is to determine the technical efficiency of family farms and identify the factors that determine their income. Based on qualitative and quantitative data collection, it leads to a number of results. First, 46.5% of farms in Mauritius are technically efficient under variable returns to scale and that productivity is significantly influenced by the gender of the farm manager and the area cultivated. Second, farms in the Senegal Delta cultivate an average area of 2.23 hectares and earn an average gross income of EUR2126.816 per season. In addition, the level of education of the head of the household, the size of the cultivated area and certain non-agricultural activities (fattening) are identified as determining factors of agricultural income. Therefore, policies to improve the formal education of producers, capacity building of their organizations and access to land and inputs need to be undertaken to modernize family farms.

Autor

Mr. Malick Ndiaye is a doctoral student in Agricultural Economics, member of the Laboratoire de Recherches en Economie de Saint-Louis (LARES), UFR des sciences économiques et de gestion, Université Gaston Berger du Sénégal. His research focuses on a diagnosis of family farming and agribusiness in order to analyze economic prospects.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.05.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 152 x 229 mm
• Gewicht: 114 g
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
• Schlagworte: determinants • Family Farms • Farm income • technical efficiency
• ISBN-10: 620-6-01915-2 / 6206019152
• ISBN-13: 978-620-6-01915-2 / 9786206019152
• Zustand: Neuware