Socioeconomic Assessment of Pigeonpea andGroundnut Production Conditions ? FarmerTechnology Choice, Market Linkages,Institutions and Poverty in Rural Malawi
2011
f simtowe | s asfaw | e monyo | g muricho | b shiferaw | n v p r ganga rao | s silim | oswin madzonga | t abate | m siambi
F Simtowe et al., 'Socioeconomic Assessment of Pigeonpea andGroundnut Production Conditions ? FarmerTechnology Choice, Market Linkages,Institutions and Poverty in Rural Malawi', International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 2011
Show more [+] Less [-]In Malawi, agriculture remains an important component of the economy; employing 85 percentof the labor force, accounting for about 39% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 83% ofMalawi?s foreign exchange earnings (Chirwa 2007). The agricultural sector is subdivided into subsectors;estates and smallholder farmers. The latter accounts for 78% of the cultivated land andgenerates about 75% of Malawi?s total agricultural output, suggesting that Malawi?s agriculture islargely smallholder agriculture
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