Reference no: EM132454078

Requirements:

• Amount of non-cash crops grown must be sufficient to meet nutritional requirements of farmer family for a year, with an extra 15% buffer to cover spoilage, long term guests/relatives that could join the household. Also, an extra 10% needs to be grown to be used as seed/cuttings for the next growing season.

• Intensification Practices are only utilized for cassava cash-crop production, and may be limited by initial funds available to implement intensification. Traditional (low yield) cassava can also be sold as a cash crop and does not incur intensification costs or attain intensification yields.

• Yield, Intensification Costs and initial cash available are provided in the table below. You will need to perform research (and document sources) to determine some crop nutritional values/yields, to determine and appropriate values to use for average farm size and average family size in Mozambique.

Beginning cash on hand is equal to $(NetID)/500

Questions

Report your variable definitions, formulation and model results.

Interpret your results to provide answers to the following:

Question 1: What is the cash on hand at the end of year1, year 2, year 3 and year 4?

Question 2: What amount of each of the crops is grown in years 1, 2, 3 and 4?

Question 3: What would the impact on your year one solution be if the Fat content of bananas was 25 g per kg instead of 0g per kg?

Question 4: What would the impact be of doubling the cash on hand at time zero?

Question 5: What would the impact be if the market price for cassava was reduced by 25%?