@article{Singh:261617,
      recid = {261617},
      author = {Singh, Hardath  and McSween, Gilbert },
      title = {An Integrated Approach to Small Farmers' Development in  the OECS Countries - The CARDATS Experience},
      address = {1984-10-21},
      number = {1975-2017-3545},
      pages = {8},
      year = {1984},
      abstract = {CARDATS is an agricultural development project which  offers a multi-disciplinary package of services to limited  groups of small farmers in each of the OECS Member Stares  within the Caribbean Community. The package of services  includes assistance in farm planning, provision of inputs,  production technology, and marketing. The modus operandi is  based on the concept that sensible and effective  coordination of all the links in the productivity chain -  from planning, through production, to marketing - is  essential for successful farming. Over the more than six  years of its existence, the project's most persistent  concern has been to improve the economic returns to the  farmers with whom it has been associated. Since these  farmers have, for the most part, been food crop growers,  the production of vegetables and other root crops has  received greatest attention in CARDATS' farm programming.  CARDATS' programs, as described above, must obviously have  an impact on associated rural communities. Similarly, rural  situations influence, in some measure, the development  processes undertaken in these programs. Within the CARDATS  experience are many instances where farmer attitudes and  responses to project initiatives are apparently conditioned  by social and cultural influences. It is evident that these  must be clearly understood and appreciated if meaningful  and lasting small farmer development is to be achieved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/261617},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.261617},
}