THE BACKYARD PRODUCTION SYSTEM A Solution For Low Family Nutrition in Dominica

Gregory Robin and Barton Clarke

No 261466, 21st Annual Meeting, September 8-13, 1985, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from Caribbean Food Crops Society

Abstract: The Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), through the USAID funded Farming Systems Research and Development Project, is currently evaluating a model Backyard Production System, designed to 1mprove the nutrition of rural small farm households in Dominica. The model, which consists of the farm household, livestock pens, feed plot, fenced vegetable plots, seedling nursery and compost heap, provided vegetables and eggs to the household at low cost. Data for 10 months show that additional vegetable consumption was 17.5kg, 62.kg and 14.2kg on Farms 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Egg consumption per month Increased from 0 to 7.3, 31.6 and 36.0 and value of production was EC$617.20, $240.44 and $309.20 on Farms 1,2 and 3 respectively. Establishment costs were EC$716.12, $350.12 and $647.25 whereas monthly operating costs were EC$I41.25, $9.91 and $28.92 for Farmers 1, 2 and 3 respectively. Meat production and consumption were neglible.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Food Security and Poverty; Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 7
Date: 1985-09-08
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261466/files/21_44.pdf (application/pdf)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261466/files/21_44.pdf?subformat=pdfa (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:cfcs85:261466

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.261466

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in 21st Annual Meeting, September 8-13, 1985, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago from Caribbean Food Crops Society
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().