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标题：Tobacco Farmer Interest and Success in Income Diversification
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作者：Beach, Robert H. ; Jones, Alison Snow ; Tooze, Janet A. 等
期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness
印刷版ISSN：0738-8950
出版年度：2008
页码：53-71
出版社：Journal of Agribusiness
摘要：As farm income from tobacco production has declined in recent years, there has been increasing interest in identifying alternative sources of income for tobacco farmers in the southern United States The recent termination of the tobacco quota program has accelerated the exit of tobacco farmers and has heightened concern regarding the availability of substitutes for tobacco production. In this study, we examine factors influencing tobacco farmers’ attempts to identify profitable alternatives to tobacco, their off-farm employment behavior, and changes in acres of tobacco cultivated using survey data collected from a panel of North Carolina tobacco farmers combined with market data
关键词：diversification;farm programs;farmer survey;quota buyout;tobacco