ABSTRACT

Appendix VII shows the division of interest in agriculture between planting for domestic consumption and for cash returns. The information is obtained from answers to the household questionnaire applied in the valley and coastal villages. Clearly, this is not as accurate or precise as would be observation and counting. For one thing, the units of measurement with which farmers work are highly variable: some count mounds where crops are planted, others estimate acres, others add up lines of planted produce. The cash returns are estimated from memory rather than from records, and do not correspond to the value of the crops reported as being planted, but normally to the crop of the season before.