Book
Report on an economic study of small farming in Jamaica
University College of the West Indies, Institute of Social and Economic Research • Mona, Jamaica • Published In 1961 • Pages:
By: Edwards, David T. (David Telfy).
Abstract
This document is the product of a yearlong study of the economics of eighty-seven small farms across nine areas of the island. Surveys gathered data on physical and economic geography, farm labor and management, land tenure, farm capital, use of resources and farm output, farmers' income and standards of living, and farmers' reactions to extension service recommendations. The author identifies areas where the adoption of innovations is likely or unlikely, and suggests ways to get farmers to change, although concluding that the simple technology employed is a reasonable response to uncertain conditions. Between hurricanes, droughts, and insufficient capital and labor, farmers have little choice but to practice a diversified, labor intensive, conservative form of cultivation rather than face the risks accompanying new methods and borrowed capital.
- Subjects
- Agriculture
- Real property
- Production and supply
- Labor and leisure
- Ownership and control of capital
- culture
- Jamaicans
- Region
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub Region
- Caribbean
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Economist-4,5
- Analyst
- Martin Malone ; 1976
- Field Date
- May, 1954-November, 1955
- Coverage Date
- 1954-1958
- Coverage Place
- Yallahs Valley, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica; Jamaica
- Notes
- by David Edwards
- Since many of the suggestions for technical improvements are closely tied to present agricultural methods, most of them have been marked for Category 242, instead of being zeroed out. Since Category 241 applies to almost the entire source, it has been asterisked following page 50.
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Jamaica--Economic conditions\\Agriculture--Jamaica