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Socioeconomic Assessment of Pigeonpea and Groundnut Production Conditions – Farmer Technology Choice, Market Linkages, Institutions and Poverty in Rural Malawi

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Research Report No.6
 
Title Socioeconomic Assessment of Pigeonpea and
Groundnut Production Conditions – Farmer
Technology Choice, Market Linkages,
Institutions and Poverty in Rural Malawi
 
Creator Simtowe, F
Asfaw, S
Shiferaw, B
Siambi, M
Monyo, E
Muricho, G
Abate, T
Silim, S
Ganga Rao, N V P R
Madzonga, Oswin
 
Subject Pigeonpea
Groundnut
 
Description In Malawi, agriculture remains an important component of the economy; employing 85 percent
of the labor force, accounting for about 39% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 83% of
Malawi’s foreign exchange earnings (Chirwa 2007). The agricultural sector is subdivided into subsectors;
estates and smallholder farmers. The latter accounts for 78% of the cultivated land and
generates about 75% of Malawi’s total agricultural output, suggesting that Malawi’s agriculture is
largely smallholder agriculture.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2010
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/52/1/Pigeonpea_and_Groundnut_Print_Copy.pdf
Simtowe, F and Asfaw, S and Shiferaw, B and Siambi, M and Monyo, E and Muricho, G and Abate, T and Silim, S and Ganga Rao, N V P R and Madzonga, Oswin (2010) Socioeconomic Assessment of Pigeonpea and Groundnut Production Conditions – Farmer Technology Choice, Market Linkages, Institutions and Poverty in Rural Malawi. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad India.