Response to Economic Incentive by Abakaliki Rice Farmers in Eastern Nigeria

‘Efficient but Poor’, — schultz', theory of traditional agriculture

“…See e.g. Hopper, 1957, Welsch, 1965, Chennareddy, 1967, Yotopoulos, 1967, Sahota, 1968 and However, the four studies examined indicate that the MVP deviated from the MFC on average by 41 percent. Naturally, this could easily indicate that a major reallocation of resources would be necessary, but in spite of that, all the studies examined report that the findings tend to confirm the Schultz hypothesis.…”

Small farm improvement strategies—the implications of a computer simulation study of indigenous farming in south‐east Ghana

“…Hill, 1970;Jones, 1960;Norman, 1970;Welsch, 1965]. If this proposition is valid it follows that there is little scope for increasing production by improving farmers' decision-making with existing production functions.…”

Programming for Agricultural Development: The Case of Egypt

“…We wish to thank G. Hujik for computational assistance and the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for computer facilities and assistance. 1 Except for Welsch [19] who dealt with the allocation of resources in Eastern Nigeria, the rest pertained to testing the allocation efficiency in Indian agriculture. However, these studies varied in terms of regions, sample size, number of crops, and number of inputs considered.…”