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Part-Time Farming: Productivity and Some Implications of Off-Farm Work by Farmers

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  • Singh, Surendra P.
  • Williamson, Handy

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The technological revolution in agriculture has produced a structural transformation in fanning that has changed the face of rural America. With improved technology and long-term U.S. economic growth, one major adjustment has been a reallocation of labor between farm and non-farm labor markets. After 1948, long-term economic forces created prospects of higher incomes in the non-farm sector. As a result, a large proportion of both white and black families ceased farming and took non-farm jobs. However, a number of other farm families have continued to work their farms, but have also taken off-farm jobs to supplement their income. Krasovec describes part-time farming as a regular two-fold occupation of the head of the family. That person may, on the one hand, be working permanently in non-agricultural industries either as an employee or as an independent craftsman, merchant or member of a profession, and on the other, in agriculture on a holding not large enough to justify a full-time occupation.

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  • Singh, Surendra P. & Williamson, Handy, 1981. "Part-Time Farming: Productivity and Some Implications of Off-Farm Work by Farmers," Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 13(2), pages 61-67, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jagaec:v:13:y:1981:i:02:p:61-67_02
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    1. Findeis, Jill L., 1987. "Off-Farm Employment: Research and Issues," 1987 Annual Meeting, August 2-5, East Lansing, Michigan 270109, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    2. Bojnec, Stefan & Ferto, Imre, 2011. "Impact of Off-farm Income on Farm Efficiency in Slovenia," 2011 International Congress, August 30-September 2, 2011, Zurich, Switzerland 114258, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    3. Findeis, Jill L. & Hallberg, M. C. & Lass, Daniel, 1987. "Off-Farm Employment: Research and Issues," Staff Paper Series 256841, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    4. Lien, Gudbrand D. & Kumbhakar, Subal C. & Hardaker, J. Brian, 2008. "Determinants Of Part-Time Farming And Its Effect On Farm Productivity And Efficiency," 107th Seminar, January 30-February 1, 2008, Sevilla, Spain 6701, European Association of Agricultural Economists.

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