Patterns of choice behaviour on peasant farms in Northern Nigeria.

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A budget analysis was made of 28 peasant farms in: a region of N. Nigeria to determine motives underlying farm organization. The agricultural system is traditional and static; farmers are aware of the necessity of applying organic manure but use no fertilizer; some hired labour supplements family labour. It was found that the proportion of cash crops (groundnuts) and subsistence crops (mainly sorghum and pearl millet) was mainly determined by maximum cash income expectation; however, self-sufficiency in food had to be assured first of all. 'Thus, all land not allocated to groundnuts was planted to cereals in view of the risks of low yields in unfavourable years, and no land was left fallow. The absence of fallow land, however, may endanger the maintenance of soil fertility in the long run. T. A. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)

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