Aoki, Masahiko
Henri and Tomoye Takahashi Professor, Economics Department, Stanford University, and Director General, Research Institute, Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Government of Japan
Hayami, Yujiro
Director, FASID Graduate Programme, and Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Print publication date: 2001 (this edition)
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: August 2004
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924101-9
doi:10.1093/0199241015.003.0005
This chapter discusses how peasant entrepreneurs develop their trade by taking advantage of the village community relationships, based on a field study of vegetable marketing in Indonesia. It covers commercial vegetable production in an upland village, the organization of vegetable marketing, interregional trade of vegetables, and the impact of economic development on peasant entrepreneurs. Keywords:peasants,
vegetable marketing,
Indonesia,
entrepreneurs