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Production Economics And The Modernization Of Traditional Agricultures

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A traditional agriculture operates in a relatively static physical, economic and cultural environment and as a consequence becomes relatively well adjusted to that environment. Modernization of agriculture occurs when substantial and continuing change in the decision-making environment provides incentives to make new farming decisions. Farming then becomes dynamic as farmers attempt to reach constantly shifting points of equilibrium. Agricultural production economics in low income countries has been too much applied to a search for disequilibria within the given static environment and not enough to the possibilities and results of deliberately changing that environment.

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  • Mellor, John W., 1969. "Production Economics And The Modernization Of Traditional Agricultures," Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:ajaeau:22938
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.22938
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    1. John W. Mellor, 1963. "The Use and Productivity of Farm Family Labor in Early Stages of Agricultural Development," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 45(3), pages 517-534.
    2. Mellor, John W., 1968. "The Functions of Agricultural Prices in Economic Development," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 23(1), January.
    3. W. David Hopper, 1965. "Allocation Efficiency in a Traditional Indian Agriculture," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 47(3), pages 611-624.
    4. Mellor, John W., 1968. "The Functions of Agricultural Prices in Economic Development," Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, vol. 23(1), pages 1-16.
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