Open AccessCultivator Market Responsiveness in Pakistan—Cereal and Cash Crops
Author(s) -
John Cummings
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v14i3pp.261-273
Subject(s) - cash crop , agricultural economics , cash , economics , production (economics) , littoral zone , supply and demand , agriculture , variety (cybernetics) , geography , macroeconomics , mathematics , biology , ecology , statistics , archaeology
In an attempt to identify the effect of various economic,social and political factors on the degree of market responsivenessdisplayed by cultivators of both food and cash crops, estimates of thesupply elasticities of several crops were made. The analysis employed aNerlove-type supply model [5], which has been widely applied in recentyears to the production of a considerable number of crops. Most of theearlier studies have been aggregate in nature, but, given the motivationof the present effort, such an approach was not appropriate. Pakistandisplays a profile made up of a wide variety of climatological,topographical, and even sociological circumstances ranging from thelittoral districts near Karachi to the mountains above Peshawar, and ourbasic intention was to high¬light any inter-regional rural differences.Thus the supply model was applied not only to national output, but alsoto that of the divisions and districts and the results are reportedherein.