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Analysis of Production and Consumption of Organic Products in South Africa
http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/58356
Fully-certified organic Partially-certified organic
Non-organic
Constraint
Mean
Std.Dev. Rank
Mean
Std.Dev. Rank
Mean
Std.Dev. Rank
Livestock damage
2.56
0.774
7
2.82
0.448
4
2.8
0.539
2
Uncertain climate
2.96
0.189
1
2.83
0.409
3
2.82
0.486
1
Uncertain prices for products sold to pack
house
2.21
0.793
13
2.13
0.591
16
-
-
-
Uncertain prices for products sold to other
markets
1.94
0.811
17
2.02
0.595
18
2.17
0.761
10
Huge work load
2.58
0.599
6
2.32
0.688
12
2.53
0.649
4
Lack of cash and credit to finance inputs
2.78
0.567
2
2.58
0.615
6
2.78
0.468
3
Lack of information about producing
organic crops
2.02
0.687
15
2.2
0.632
14
2.16
0.717
11
Lack of information about alternative
markets
2.38
0.623
10
2.29
0.602
13
-
-
-
Lack of proper storage facilities
2.56
0.66
7
2.46
0.543
9
2.41
0.643
7
Lack of affordable transport for products
2.72
0.492
4
2.42
0.56
11
2.06
0.852
12
Lack of telephone to negotiate sales
2.69
0.509
5
2.55
0.633
8
2.22
0.771
8
Inputs not available at affordable prices
2.52
0.642
9
2.8
0.447
5
2.51
0.545
5
Tractor not available when needed
2.76
0.501
3
2.89
0.416
1
2.46
0.713
6
Cannot find manure for purchase
1.92
0.778
18
2.56
0.66
7
2.2
0.645
8
Cannot find labour to hire
1.73
0.764
20
1.76
0.816
20
2
0.764
13
Cannot access more cop land
1.95
0.753
16
1.98
0.805
19
1.92
0.794
14
Delay of payment of products sent to pack
house
2.22
0.723
12
2.89
0.315
1
-
-
-
Lack of bargaining power over product
prices at the pack house
2.16
0.672
14
2.2
0.704
14
-
-
-
Lack of information about consumer
preferences for organic products
2.23
0.654
11
2.44
0.604
10
-
-
-
No reward system or incentive for
smallholder producers
1.86
0.78
19
2.02
0.866
17
-
-
-
Table 5. Identification and ranking of risk sources by farmers
The most important traditional risk management strategies used by the farmers were identified
as crop diversification, precautionary savings and participating in social network. The overall
Herfindahl index of crop diversification is estimated at 0. 61 which indicates that the cropping
system is relatively diverse (Table 6). These results confirm previous findings by [43] who
 
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