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Application of Farm Management Research to LDC Agriculture

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It is necessary to distinguish between farm management and farm management research. Farm management is what farmers do, but farm management research is what agricultural economists do. The definition and the aims of FMR have varied in time and space. The development and early practice of FMR was strongly anchored to the theory of the firm and profit maximising assumptions.

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Clayton, E. (1983). Application of Farm Management Research to LDC Agriculture. In: Agriculture, Poverty and Freedom in Developing Countries. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17297-9_6

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