Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique
Continuous monocropping of tobacco, excessive tillage and inadequate irrigation management have caused soil degradation in tobacco farms in the Valle de Lerma. Soil degradation due to tobacco monocropping and uncertain economic perspectives for tobacco farming call for diversification strategies fo...
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| author | Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela Berentsen, Paul Oude Lansink, Alfons |
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| description | Continuous monocropping of tobacco, excessive tillage and inadequate irrigation management have
caused soil degradation in tobacco farms in the Valle de Lerma. Soil degradation due to tobacco monocropping and uncertain economic perspectives for tobacco farming call for diversification strategies for tobacco
farmers. The objective of this paper is to develop useful criteria for assessing diversification activities and
to provide a ranking of different diversification activities on these criteria. The Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique is applied to get consistent assessments of criteria and activities from experts and
stakeholders. Next, goal programming methods are used to aggregate individual assessments in order
to arrive at the final ranking of farming activities for diversification. The five criteria to judge production
activities for tobacco diversification are contribution to income, suitability for biophysical conditions,
availability of technical information, market feasibility and contribution to soil improvement. The feasibility to market the products stands out with clearly high relative weight, while the other criteria received
similar weights. The obtained weights of farming activities showed that especially livestock activities
and spring–summer crops are important alternatives for tobacco production. Livestock activities stand
out because they have high scores on all criteria. Livestock activities and spring–summer crops will compete with tobacco for resources because tobacco is a spring–summer crop. Therefore, these activities may
be more suitable for tobacco farms that operate large area of land. The results of this research can be used
in optimization models for determining the optimal mix of farming activities in combination with tobacco
production. Such models can provide further insights into factors determining diversification. |
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| spelling | INTA226072025-06-10T13:29:15Z Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela Berentsen, Paul Oude Lansink, Alfons Tabaco Diversificación Sistemas de Cultivo Tobacco Diversification Cropping Systems Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) Continuous monocropping of tobacco, excessive tillage and inadequate irrigation management have caused soil degradation in tobacco farms in the Valle de Lerma. Soil degradation due to tobacco monocropping and uncertain economic perspectives for tobacco farming call for diversification strategies for tobacco farmers. The objective of this paper is to develop useful criteria for assessing diversification activities and to provide a ranking of different diversification activities on these criteria. The Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique is applied to get consistent assessments of criteria and activities from experts and stakeholders. Next, goal programming methods are used to aggregate individual assessments in order to arrive at the final ranking of farming activities for diversification. The five criteria to judge production activities for tobacco diversification are contribution to income, suitability for biophysical conditions, availability of technical information, market feasibility and contribution to soil improvement. The feasibility to market the products stands out with clearly high relative weight, while the other criteria received similar weights. The obtained weights of farming activities showed that especially livestock activities and spring–summer crops are important alternatives for tobacco production. Livestock activities stand out because they have high scores on all criteria. Livestock activities and spring–summer crops will compete with tobacco for resources because tobacco is a spring–summer crop. Therefore, these activities may be more suitable for tobacco farms that operate large area of land. The results of this research can be used in optimization models for determining the optimal mix of farming activities in combination with tobacco production. Such models can provide further insights into factors determining diversification. EEA Salta Fil: Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela. Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (INTA). Estación Experimental Agropecuaria Salta; Argentina Fil: Berentsen, Paul. Wageningen University. Department of Social Sciences. Business Economics Group; Países Bajos Fil: Oude Lansink,Alfons. Wageningen University. Department of Social Sciences. Business Economics Group; Países Bajos Fil: Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela. Wageningen University. Department of Social Sciences. Business Economics Group; Países Bajos 2025-06-10T13:04:41Z 2025-06-10T13:04:41Z 2012-05-25 info:ar-repo/semantics/artículo info:eu-repo/semantics/review info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22607 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X12000844 0308-521X https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2012.05.006 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf Agricultural Systems 111 : 53–62. (September 2012) |
| spellingShingle | Tabaco Diversificación Sistemas de Cultivo Tobacco Diversification Cropping Systems Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) Chavez Clemente, Maria Daniela Berentsen, Paul Oude Lansink, Alfons Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique |
| title | Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique |
| title_full | Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique |
| title_fullStr | Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique |
| title_short | Assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique |
| title_sort | assessment of criteria and farming activities for tobacco diversification using the analytical hierarchical process ahp technique |
| topic | Tabaco Diversificación Sistemas de Cultivo Tobacco Diversification Cropping Systems Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12123/22607 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308521X12000844 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2012.05.006 |
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