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An Analysis of Small Holder Objectives in the Dominican Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

Margaret Andrews
Margaret Andrews*
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Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland
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The question of the operational objectives of small holder, “peasant” farmers has received considerable attention in the literature of agricultural development and production economics. Justification could not be made for rehashing this old issue, were it not for almost universal incomplete specification by most writers on the subject. No writer denies the dual nature of the peasant household, but few have made a serious attempt theoretically, and even less empirically, to integrate consumption activities into an analytical framework of the small farm.

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Production and Marketing
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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , October 1975 , pp. 91 - 98
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Published with the approval of the Director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Article No. A 2128, Contribution No. 5090.

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