Current situation of the same features of farm management entrepreneurship of advanced farmers in sub-urban areas in Myanmar
2007
Tokita, K. | Itagaki, K., Tokyo Univ. of Agriculture, Tokyo (Japan)
Since the transfer to market-oriented economy in Myanmar in 1988, agriculture has been getting sensitive to market prices, while increasing the production of regimes for export and horticultural products for local use in companies with the sizable domestic market. In addition to this movement, focusing on the site nearby central city like Yangan, it can be shown that some of commercialized farmers try to carry out the newly developed farm management, meeting the activated handling of agricultural products with the change of consumer's behavior. The purpose of this study is to identify the process and factors of income difference among farmers in the surveyed area, putting emphasis on the farmer's entrepreneurship. In the rural area nearby big city, farmers have good access to market, transformation and information. However, it should be noted that farmers can be polarized into two group; farmer's group with market-oriented attitude and the farmer's group with traditional and semi-subsistence farming style at this present time. In comparison with the advanced farmers and the conventional ones, it will be expectedly clarified what are the crucial factors in income difference between two farmers' groups, in particular which may occur by the existence of entrepreneurship.
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