Tobacco Farmer Interest and Success in Income Diversification

Robert Beach, Alison Jones and Janet A. Tooze

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 2008, vol. 40, issue 01, 19

Abstract: As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been increasing interest in identifying alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota program has accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the availability of substitutes for tobacco production. In this study, we examine factors influencing tobacco farmers’ attempts to identify profitable alternatives to tobacco, their off-farm employment behavior, and changes in acres of tobacco cultivated using survey data collected from a panel of North Carolina tobacco farmers combined with market data

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Farm Management; Financial Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.45045

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