Discuss the amount of non-cash crops grown

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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%?

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