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).
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Agriculture
- Real property
- Production and supply
- Labor and leisure
- Ownership and control of capital
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Jamaicans
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle America and the Caribbean
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Caribbean
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- EvaluationIn this alphanumeric code, the first part designates the type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on. The second part is a ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- Economist-4,5
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Martin Malone ; 1976
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- May, 1954-November, 1955
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1958
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Yallahs Valley, St. Thomas Parish, Jamaica; Jamaica
- NotesAdditional 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
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Jamaica--Economic conditions\\Agriculture--Jamaica