A review of different decision-making models for fruit farmers

Farmers' decisions are inoariably taken .under the conditions of uncertainty. The purpose of this paper is to review the expected accounting profit model and to compare how well it explains farmers' decision on cropping-pattern selection with two other models, the negative exponential util...

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Main Author: Mohayidin, Mohd Ghazali
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Malaysian Agricultural Economics Association 1984
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39749/1/Aug%202%20-%20A%20review%20of%20different%20decision-making%20models%20for%20fruit%20farmers.pdf
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/39749/
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Summary:Farmers' decisions are inoariably taken .under the conditions of uncertainty. The purpose of this paper is to review the expected accounting profit model and to compare how well it explains farmers' decision on cropping-pattern selection with two other models, the negative exponential utility and the market-based profit models. The expected accounting profit model isfound to perform better than the other two models in explainingfanners' choice.