Tobacco Mechanization and Potential Out-Migration*

Leon B. Perkinson and Dale M. Hoover

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, 1977, vol. 9, issue 1, 83-88

Abstract: This paper reports an investigation of the potential out-migration response to flue-cured tobacco harvest mechanization in an eight county area of eastern North Carolina. The study is unique in that lost harvest earnings and potential out-migration response are reported in a household context. In addition, as the adoption process of mechanization is still in its beginning stages, out-migration responses are those that could be anticipated.The impact of increased agricultural productivity and substitution of capital for labor are familiar to agricultural economists. So, too, is the social concern about farm-to-city migration which accompanied the mechanization of agriculture.

Date: 1977
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