The use and productivity of labour in shifting cultivation: An East Malaysian case study
Abstract
This paper examines the pattern of labour use and the level and range of labour productivity in a shifting cultivation system in East Malaysia in order to explain the persistence of this cropping system in a semi-commercialized agriculture. It is concluded that the real returns to labour in shifting cultivation probably exceed its real opportunity cost and that, although a trend to smaller farms will continue, shifting cultivation will persist for some decades.
- Publication:
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Agricultural Systems
- Pub Date:
- 1989
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0308-521X(89)90057-7
- Bibcode:
- 1989AgSys..29...97C