Effects of Cash Crop Production on Food Crop Productivity in Zimbabwe: Synergies or Trade-offs?

Jones Govereh and Thomas Jayne ()

No 54670, Food Security International Development Working Papers from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: This paper studies the dynamics between cash cropping and food crop productivity in Gokwe North District in Zimbabwe, a major cotton producing area. The main research issues were: (1) to identify the determinants of commercialized crop production at the household level; and (2) to determine the effect of increasing crop commercialization on household food productivity. The paper derives a household crop commercialization index, defined as the ratio of crop sales to total crop production. Econometric models were developed for identifying the determinants of household-level commercialization and for measuring its effects on food crop productivity.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Productivity Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.54670

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