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About the Book
The study focuses on a mountainous region in northern Pakistan where due to the higher income potential farmers have moved from cereals to horticultural crops. Since the prices of these crops fluctuate, farmers’ income have become more unstable. Also, they depend more on outside markets for their inputs and outputs and have to use more capital and labour. The study investigates how farmers perform in the new situation with respect to resource use and profits obtained. Using quadratic risk programming models the study concludes that, provided some pre-conditions are met, farmers could adopt more risk- and profit-efficient cropping plans. Furthermore, the book provides a compendium of information about the study area.
About the Author
Muhammad Riaz completed his masters degree in Agricultural Economics in 1992 from the University of Agriculture, Peshawar, Pakistan. He then joined the government agricultural research system as an economist responsible for research on issues related to market and farming systems of horticultural crops in the northern mountainous region of Swat. These included for example, monitoring of market prices & trade flows, market and rural rapid appraisals, development of niche products, studies on markets and market intermediaries, establishment of farmers’ marketing associations and assembly wholesale markets in rural areas. In 1997 he started his Ph.D. studies at the University of Giessen, Germany. |
