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The Role of Nonfarm Activities in the Rural Economy

Year: 1989

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: Until quite recently it has been conventional to equate, in a rough way, the rural economy with the agricultural economy. Rural households, containing anywhere from 30 to 70 per cent of the nation’s population, were envisaged as having as their primary function the production of food and fibre for the home market and one or more crops for the export market. In addition to farm production, household members might as secondary activities be engaged in a certain amount of agricultural processing, transporting and marketing.

Source: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-19746-0_16

Authors: Carl Liedholm, Peter Kilby

Institutions: Michigan State University, Wesleyan University

Language: English

Topic: Agricultural economics and policies

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Decent work and economic growth, Zero hunger

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W55579172

FWCI: 14.25

Cites: 13

Cited by: 50

Related to: 10