Population of active tobacco growers (lnATG
t
) The total number of actively registered tobacco growers that have produced and supplied tobacco leaf to the market. According to the micro-economic theory of supply, quantity supplied fora product increase when new firms supplying the same product enter the market. Entrants of new firms in the market result in an increase in quantity supplied thereby resulting in a rightward shift of the market supply curve. Hence, it is expected that an increase in the number of registered tobacco growers should increase the quantity supplied for tobacco. Dean (1966) also used the variable as one of the factors influencing agricultural output and found it positively related to tobacco supply.
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