Small producer....big business!

Small producers, i.e., both farmers and food processors, are a big business in agriculture in the Caribbean. Their numbers far outweigh their relatively larger counterparts. Despite the difficult conditions under which they operate, including marginal lands, limited access to credit and the virtual...

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Main Author: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
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Published: Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture 2010
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49667
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description Small producers, i.e., both farmers and food processors, are a big business in agriculture in the Caribbean. Their numbers far outweigh their relatively larger counterparts. Despite the difficult conditions under which they operate, including marginal lands, limited access to credit and the virtual non-existence of risk mitigation mechanisms, the contributions of these micro and small entrepreneurs to economic development, social stability and food security are big by comparison to their size...
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spelling CGSpace496672024-01-08T18:54:14Z Small producer....big business! Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture Small producers, i.e., both farmers and food processors, are a big business in agriculture in the Caribbean. Their numbers far outweigh their relatively larger counterparts. Despite the difficult conditions under which they operate, including marginal lands, limited access to credit and the virtual non-existence of risk mitigation mechanisms, the contributions of these micro and small entrepreneurs to economic development, social stability and food security are big by comparison to their size... 2010 2014-10-30T08:48:40Z 2014-10-30T08:48:40Z Newsletter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/49667 en Open Access application/pdf Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture IICA. 2010. Small producer....big business! AGRIView, Vol 15, No 2. St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.
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