The fundamental nature of decision-making on the African farm is analytically similar to decision-making anywhere. The decision-maker has control over a number of factors or resources which he can define quantitatively and qualitatively more or less precisely according to their nature and the...

In Europe, America, Africa and Asia, the Twentieth Century has witnessed movements towards economic unions and/or common trading arrangements. The fact that early movements at common trading policies were among advanced countries, indicate that even economies at such advanced stages of...

One would have to be quite presumptuous to feel that he could read five papers as dissimilar as the ones we are dealing with here today and come out with all common elements. While all but one consider the general area of rural development policy, there is a considerable range in their...

Since the end of the 50's, a series of producer associations have been formed for working land in common in Spain, thus forming a new enterprise starting with small farms which were cultivated individually before. Usually two legal forms are applied to them: The Cooperatives and the Syndical...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of limited tractorization in agricultural development on the basis of data collected through a field survey in the district of Shahabad, Bihar, India which was conducted during 1973-74 1 . It is believed that in a less developed economy where...

The objectiye of this paper is to discuss a farm management training course designed to develop allocative ability. The paper consists of three sections. The first section briefly emphasizes the importance of allocative ability in relation to farm management decisionmaking. The second section...