Open AccessThe Effect of the Growing Constraint of Subsistence Farming on Farmer Res¬ponse to Price: A Case Study of Jute in Pakistan
Author(s) -
Sayed Mushtaq Hussain
Publication year - 1969
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/v9i3pp.235-272
Subject(s) - subsistence agriculture , exploit , rigour , incentive , economics , constraint (computer aided design) , agriculture , time horizon , work (physics) , microeconomics , computer science , engineering , mathematics , ecology , computer security , biology , mechanical engineering , geometry , finance
During the last decade or so, substantial empirical work hasbeen done on farmer response to price in the underdeveloped countries1.Most of the research effort, however, is lacking theoretical rigour andis heavily oriented towards the estimation of area (output) supplyfunctions and the verification of the existence of economic incentives.The purpose of this study is to extend the research horizon byemphasizing and elaborating the role of certain constraints indetermining the degree of farmer response to price which is one of theaspects of economic performance. We believe that the level of farmers'economic performance varies directly with their ability to exploit theopportunities within the horizon. It was main¬tained elsewhere that thebasic reason for farmers' low level of economic performance lies in thefact that their ability to exploit given and well-understoodopportunities is reduced by various constraints — physical (climate,water avail¬ability, etc.), technological (lack of more productivetechnical knowledge and knowhow, etc.) and institutional (the practiceof subsistence farming) [12].