What Drives Smallholder Farmers
Keywords:
Smallholder farmers, Net seller, Net buyer, autarkic, Ordered Probit modelAbstract
Smallholder potato farmers in Uganda can be described as subsistence and in some cases self sufficient characterised with low or no surpluses for sale into the market. This study set out to bring to the fore front the factors that lead to observed smallholder farmers
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