IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/cfcs94/258734.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Agricultural Diversification In Small Island States: The Marketing Dilemma

Author

Listed:
  • Clarendon, Hannah

Abstract

Agricultural diversification has been promulgated by planners to allow the farmer to spread his risk and to increase the foreign exchange earnings of the country. But it has become evident that the mere addition of other crops will not allow either of these two objectives to be met due to the decline in that sector. The decline is bccause some of the crops have attained their maximum growth. Profits to be derived is dwindling with a resultant reduction in the production base and, coupled with low productivity, the income to be derived is even lower. Both traditional and nontraditional export crops are similarly affected. Whereas some of the new crops are still in their growth phase, there is a narrow production base and limited market access. The paper seeks to analyze the diversification thrust in Dominica and offers alternatives for a successful program.

Suggested Citation

  • Clarendon, Hannah, 1994. "Agricultural Diversification In Small Island States: The Marketing Dilemma," 30th Annual Meeting, July 31-August 5, 1994, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands 258734, Caribbean Food Crops Society.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:cfcs94:258734
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.258734
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/258734/files/30_1.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.258734?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:cfcs94:258734. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://cfcs.eea.uprm.edu/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.