Policy Reform and Off-farm Labor Supply by Operators in the Delta Region: A
| dc.creator | Mishra, Ashok K. | |
| dc.creator | Paudel, Krishna P. | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:50:50Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T02:48:38Z | |
| dc.description | Off-farm employment has been an integral part of the emerging structure of production agriculture in the South. Government farm program payments, farm structure, and strong non-farm economy have important impact on labor allocation, farm and non-farm labor, decision of farm operators. The objective of this investigation was to evaluate the determinants of off-farm labor supply for farm operators in the Delta States. Results show that off-farm work, educational level, presence of teenager, and farm tenure positive and significant impact on ff-farm labor supply by farm operators. On the other hand, farm size, household wealth, decoupled and couple farm program payments, and degree of farm diversification have a negative and significant impact on off-farm labor supply by farm operators. the semiparametreic functional formulation of the farm size and household wealth variables were found to perform better than the linear functional form. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.6725 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6725/files/sp08mi15.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6725 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/520463 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | ||
| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/6725 | |
| dc.title | Policy Reform and Off-farm Labor Supply by Operators in the Delta Region: A | |
| dc.type | Text |