Год выпуска: 2010 Автор: Paulo Nicua Mole Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 280 ISBN: 9783838322988
Описание
Cashew is among the leading export crops in Mozambique, yet very little is known about costs and returns to production for the producers who depend upon it as source of income and food security. Productivity at the farm level is declining. This study gathered input/output data through multiple visits to 40 smallholder cashew households in three different regions of Nampula, currently the most cashew producing province of Mozambique. Additional data was drawn from secondary sources to construct crop budgets which fed into a smallholder linear programing model to examine strategies to improve cashew productivity and management practices in a context of a whole- farm system. The analysis concluded that improved technologies and management practices examined have a potential to raise on-farm cashew productivity. This needs to be accompanied by a stronger institutional and market reform investment program to improve incentives to growers, and make investments in rural...
