THE MICROCOMPUTER REVOLUTION AND THE ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF COCONUT FARMING SYSTEMS
Keywords:
MICROCOMPUTER REVOLUTION, COCONUT FARMING
Abstract
Major developments, have taken place in computer technology in the last decade and the rate of change is increasing. Reductions in the size and cost of microcomputers and the availability of vastly improved software can have, a beneficial impact on the speed with which agricultural research is analysed and its imphcations assessed. Examples of software of particular interest to agricultural economists dealing with coconut fanning systems are discussed in the paper.
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CONWAY, G. R., 1985 a. 'Agricultural Ecology and Farming Systems Research' in Remenyi, J. V., (ed), 1985.
CONWAY, G. R., 1985 b. 'Agroecosystem Analysis'. Agricultural Administration, 20 : 31 55.
DARROW, K. and SAXENIAN, M., 1985. 'Worshipping a False God?' Development: Seeds of Change. 1985:1, 67 70.
de SILVA, F., 198 1, 'The Language of the Oracle: English as a Vehicle of Dependency'. Development Dialogue. 1981 : 2, 165 172.
ETHERINGTON, D. M., 1981. Multi Period Budgeting and the Economic Assessment of Perennial Crop Intercropping; Sys¬tems. (The Australian National University, Development Studies Centre, Occasional Paper No. 26). pp. 42.
ETHERINGTON, D. M. and KARUNANAYAKE, K., 1981. 'An economic analysis of some options for intercropping under coconuts in Sri Lanka'. Sri Lanka Journal of Agrarian Stu¬dies. 2 : 1. l 25.
ETHERINGTON, D. M., and MATTHEWS, P. J., 1983. 'Approa¬ches to the economic evaluation of agroforestry farming systems'. Agroforestry Systems. l : 347 306.
ETHERINGTON, D.M., and MATTHEWS, P.J., 1984. MULBUD User's Manual. Canberra: The Australian National University, Development Studies Centre. pp XIV; 96; A 18.
FORDHAM, R., 1983. 'Intercropping, what are the advantages?'. Outlook on Agriculture. 12 : 3, 142 146.
KELLY, V., STEVENS, R. D., STILWELL, T. and WEBER, M. T., 1983. 'An Annotated Directory of Statistical and related microcomputer software, for socioeconomic data analysis'.
Michigan State University, International Development Working Papers No. 12. pp. 165.
NAIR, P. K. R., 1979. Intensive Multiple Cropping with Coconuts in India, Berlin, Hamburg: Parey.
REMENYI, J. V. (ed), 1985. International Farming Systems: Proceedings of a Workshop. Canberra: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
SEFANIA, S., CHANDRA, S., and ETHERINGTON, D. M., 1982. 'A Review of Recent Research on Intercropping Under Co¬conuts '. Fiji Agricultural Journal. 44 : 1, 31 36.
STILWELL, T. C., 1983. 'Softw are Directories for Microcompu¬ters: an Annotated Bibhography'. Michigan State University, International Development Working Papers No. 9. pp 14.
WOLF, C., 1983. 'Guidehnes for the Selection of Microcomputer Hardware'. Michigan State, University, International Deve¬lopment Working Papers No. 13. pp90.
Published
1986-12-01
How to Cite
Dan M. Etherington. (1986). THE MICROCOMPUTER REVOLUTION AND THE ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF COCONUT FARMING SYSTEMS. CORD, 2(01), 34. https://doi.org/10.37833/cord.v2i01.194
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