Implementation on agricultural land expansion & other economical production activities

Actual choice of fields for land clearing is based on a comparison and ranking of ‘field attractiveness’, which is determined by its current soil fertility, tenure status (with a preference for establishing private tenure through land clearing and planting on land that is not yet claimed) and accessibility, and by rules restricting clearing on parts of the landscape. The implementation module in FALLOW also considers farmer’s choice of the type of crop, based on expected yield for a number of crop options determined by soil fertility of the fields actually cropped.

Field selection

How is farmers’ preference on the type of cultivated crop?