Cereal Substitutes in a Developing Economy: A Study of Tapioca, Kerala State

Agriculture Alleppey analysis area under tapioca arecanut average big farmers calories Cannanore capital cash crops cashew Cassava cent level classes in acres Classes of Holdings coconut compared Cost crop like tapioca crop rotation cropped area cropping intensity cropping pattern decline districts Economic economy of Kerala Ernakulam factors family labour farm households fertilisers groups of farmers growth of tapioca harvesting hectares hence higher hired labour holdings upto income increase India inter-cropping Kerala Kottayam Kozhikode labour input large farmers lowest size groups lowland Malappuram manure midland paddy cultivation Palghat Price Equations price of tapioca prices received production of tapioca profits proportion pure crop Quilon region relatively reported significant size classes small farmers strata of farms suggest Table tapioca and paddy tapioca and rice tapioca area tapioca cultivation tapioca production tapioca yields total crops Travancore trends Trichur Trivandrum tubers villages yield rates