Table of Contents

Also of Interest — List of Activity Codes — Preface — Introduction — Conditions in African Peasant Agriculture Affecting the Application of Farm Management Techniques — The Farmer: His Motivational Balance and Farm Organization — The Traditional Agricultural Sector — The Economy: I. Infrastructural Conditions — The Economy: II. Government Policy for Agricultural Development — The Approach for Farm Economics — The Investigation Phase — The Planning and Investigation Tasks — Building the Representative Farm Model — General Attributes — The Variable Attributes: Land — The Variable Attributes: Labor — The Variable Attributes: Capital and Livestock — The Variable Attributes: Output — Conclusions on Survey Organization and Design — Planning Extension Strategy and Content — The Planning Task in Relation to Adoption and Diffusion Research — Preparing an Inventory of Available Farm Improvements — The Planning Sequence: Constraints and Coefficients in Simulation — The Planning Sequence: Setting the Objective for Extension Strategy — The Planning Sequence: Selecting Extension Content over the Adoption Period — Farm Management Economics in Traditional African Agriculture and Extension Organization — Postscript