The Farm Diversification Grant Scheme: Adoption and Nonadoption in England and Wales

B W Ilbery and I R Bowler
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B W Ilbery: Department of Geography, Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, England
I R Bowler: Department of Geography, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, England

Environment and Planning C, 1993, vol. 11, issue 2, 161-170

Abstract: The Farm Diversification Grant Scheme, introduced in the United Kingdom in 1988, encourages farmers to diversify their business activities on the farm. In this paper, the Scheme is described and both the ‘farm’ and ‘farmer’ characteristics of a sample of ‘adopters’ and ‘nonadopters’ in England and Wales are examined as well as the reasons for adoption and nonadoption. The results indicate that adopters are drawn from larger farms, those with higher incomes and levels of borrowing, the younger, better educated farmers, and from farms where spouses are more actively involved in developing the business. Considerable resistance towards diversification was found among nonadopters, who have still to be convinced of the financial viability of this type of business development; to many, it is just not farming.

Date: 1993
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