Effects of Prices and Yields on the Choice of Farming Tobacco, Results from Uganda

Catherine Namome () and Corne Van Walbeek ()
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Catherine Namome: University of Cape Town
Corne Van Walbeek: University of Cape Town

No 5407784, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: Objective:Tobacco farming is important amongst smallholder farm households, and controversial within policy circles and tobacco control lobbyists. There is little knowledge about why farmers farm tobacco. We examined, cross-sectionally, why farmers grow tobacco and tested whether price and yield stimuli of tobacco and non-tobacco crops would influence the choice of farming tobacco. Methods: A cross-sectional based survey with a sample of 126 farm households (mean farm acreage 5) in the West Nile sub-region of Uganda were surveyed in 2014. We assessed the structure of their land system, access to finance, input use, production and farm expenditure of tobacco and non-tobacco crops. Regression analyses tested whether price and crop yield ratios, controlling for resources were related to the choice of growing tobacco. Results: Tobacco farmers are less likely to farm tobacco leaf if there is an increase in the price ratio of coffee to tobacco, -0.800 p

Keywords: Tobacco; Prices; Yields (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 A19 D21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 1 page
Date: 2017-07
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 32nd International Academic Conference, Geneva, Jul 2017, pages 214-214

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