The Income Diversification Strategies of Smallholder Coffee Producers in Nepal

Sharma, G P; Pandit, Ram; White, Ben; Polyakov, Maksym

doi:10.22004/ag.econ.207693

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“…The profitability index was 1.47 in Palpa district (Acharya and Dhakal, 2014) while it was 1.23 in Parbat as reported by Sharma et al (2016) and on the basis of our findings it can be inferred that Gulmi outperformed these neighbouring districts (Table 3). The off farm income was found to increase with increase in family size which is similar to the results obtained by Sharma et al (2015). More than 10% share in the annual household income shows a good sign of commercialization of any commodity (Sharma et al, 2016).…”

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Socio-economic analysis of coffee growers in Gulmi district of Nepal

Bhandari

Regmi

Gautam

et al. 2022

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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Coffee is a major plantation cash crop of hills of Nepal. Gulmi is one of the popular districts for coffee production and export in Nepal. This research is an attempt to assess the production potentiality and profitability of coffee in Gulmi district. This study was carried out in four rural municipalities of Gulmi district namely Ruru rural municipality, Dhurkot rural municipality, Satyawoti rural municipality and Musikot municipality. A total of 100 samples (25 from each rural municipality) were selected using simple random sampling technique. Face to face (FtF) interview method was used to collect primary data using pretested semi-structured questionnaire. The economic indicators of coffee production like gross revenue, gross margin, benefit-cost ratio (BCR) and profitability index (PI) were calculated. BCR and PI were found to be 2.84± 0.59 and 2.50± 1.25, respectively. Gross margin per ropani was calculated to be NRs. 15675.29 ± 7189.72. The contribution of coffee in total household income was 12% in Gulmi showing it to be one of the major influencing commodities. The major production problem was found to be insect attack in the district while the major marketing problem was the low market price. The insights of this research were that coffee has the potentiality to uplift the rural income of Gulmi but at the same time there were poor extension services for coffee growers such that farmers had shown dissatisfaction towards coffee enterprise. Therefore, effective package of production and value chain monitoring should be introduced by the Nepal government in order to address the production and marketing constraints of coffee producers.

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Section: Economic Analysis Of Coffee Productionsupporting

confidence: 72%

“…The family size of the study area was found to be 5.59 in Gulmi (Table 1). Family size of the study area determines the availability of labors to the production process (Sharma et al, 2015). The average family size of the district was found higher than that of national average family size (Table 1).…”

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Socio-economic analysis of coffee growers in Gulmi district of Nepal

Bhandari

Regmi

Gautam

et al. 2022

Arch. Agric. Environ. Sci.

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“…It is important to note that the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, the Berry Index, the entropy measure and the SID have been used several times to analyse diversification (Batool et al, 2017). Other measures include the Harfindahl-SID (Djido & Shiferaw, 2018), count index (Minot et al, 2006) and shares of income measurement (Alobo & Bignebat, 2017;Sharma et al, 2015). Evidence from the literature suggests that these indexes can yield similar outcomes as there is no clear distinction between them (Okhale, 2019;Zhao & Barry, 2014).…”

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Drivers of Households’ off-the-farm Income Diversification Patterns in Nigeria: Panel Evidence Using General Household Survey Data

Chukwu

2023

Review of Development and Change

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This study examines the drivers of households’ off-the-farm income diversification patterns using four waves of the Nigeria General Household Survey panel data. The study further investigates the motives for households’ off-the-farm income diversification patterns. The Simpson Income Diversification index and count index were used to measure income diversification. The results of heteroscedastic fractional probit correlated random effects and Poisson fixed effects indicate that the level of diversifying off-the-farm income is driven by attributes of household such as assets value, household size, female headship, level of education, dependency ratio, access to credit, distance to tarred road and geographical location of household at the national level. The study found that the motive for accumulation drives households’ off-the-farm income diversification rather than the motive for survival. Specifically, non-poor households in the urban sector seem more probable to expand into off-the-farm income enterprises than poor rural households. A major finding is that the choice of off-the-farm income diversification proxy has a great influence on the drivers.

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The Income Diversification Strategies of Smallholder Coffee Producers in Nepal

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Socio-economic analysis of coffee growers in Gulmi district of Nepal

Socio-economic analysis of coffee growers in Gulmi district of Nepal

Drivers of Households’ off-the-farm Income Diversification Patterns in Nigeria: Panel Evidence Using General Household Survey Data

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