Estimating crop production in development projects : methods and their limitations (English)

This booklet examines the relative merits and limitations of various methods for measuring crop production on smallholder farms in agriculture and rural development projects. It focuses in particular on measurement techniques used in estimating annual crop yields. In their detailed analysis of one of the most popular techniques, crop cutting, the authors draw on heretofore unpublished studies from northern Nigeria. The authors stress that the choice...

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Poate, C. D.;

Casley,Dennis J.;
Document Date
1985/06/30
Document Type
Publication
Report Number
13389
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Nigeria,
Region
Western and Central Africa,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
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Estimating crop production in development projects : methods and their limitations
Keywords
high level of accuracy

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Poate, C. D.; Casley,Dennis J..

Estimating crop production in development projects : methods and their limitations (English). A World Bank publication Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/271251468759322233

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