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Part-Time Farming: Productivity and Some Implications of Off-Farm Work by Farmers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Surendra P. Singh  and
Handy Williamson Jr
Surendra P. Singh
Affiliation:
Department of Rural Development, Cooperative Agricultural Research Program, Tennessee State University
Handy Williamson Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Rural Development, Cooperative Agricultural Research Program, Tennessee State University
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The technological revolution in agriculture has produced a structural transformation in fanning that has changed the face of rural America. With improved technology and long-term U.S. economic growth, one major adjustment has been a reallocation of labor between farm and non-farm labor markets. After 1948, long-term economic forces created prospects of higher incomes in the non-farm sector. As a result, a large proportion of both white and black families ceased farming and took non-farm jobs. However, a number of other farm families have continued to work their farms, but have also taken off-farm jobs to supplement their income. Krasovec describes part-time farming as a regular two-fold occupation of the head of the family. That person may, on the one hand, be working permanently in non-agricultural industries either as an employee or as an independent craftsman, merchant or member of a profession, and on the other, in agriculture on a holding not large enough to justify a full-time occupation.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , December 1981 , pp. 61 - 67
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Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1981

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