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Agricultural Technology and Farm–Nonfarm Growth Linkages
Author(s) -
Haggblade Steven,
Hazell Peter
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
agricultural economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1574-0862
pISSN - 0169-5150
DOI - 10.1111/j.1574-0862.1989.tb00096.x
Subject(s) - nonfarm payrolls , agriculture , economics , agricultural economics , consumption (sociology) , production (economics) , agricultural productivity , microeconomics , geography , archaeology , social science , sociology
Agricultural growth stimulates rural nonfarm activity by boosting demand for production inputs and consumer goods. But different kinds of agricultural technology promote different patterns of nonfarm linkages. To explore how key features of agricultural technology affect growth in the rural nonfarm economy, this paper reviews an array of cross‐section and time‐series evidence bearing on the dynamics of the rural nonfarm economy. Then, using consumption and production parameters associated with different agricultural technologies, it introduces a simple model which isolates the effects of different technologies on nonfarm growth linkages.