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This study aims to analyze the determinants and patterns of the on-farm diversification among the agricultural producers in Algeria. The study uses a sample of agricultural producers randomly and proportionally selected from Northern Algeria and the data obtained was analyzed using three adequate regression models. Results indicate that, on the technical aspects, the farmers who have larger farm size, access to market information, more full land employment and an irrigation system, those who own machinery and livestock holdings are more likely to diversify, whereas those with off-farm income are likely to specialize. In order to promote crop diversification, providing farm machinery through easy loans and improving access to market information and irrigation technologies should be given attention. Farmer’s experience and his age are the major socio-economic determinants of farm diversification. The implication is drawn for provision of enabling socio-economic environment for the establishment of more diversification.

This paper employs threshold cointegration technique that allows for asymmetric adjustment towards a long-run equilibrium relationship in order to examine the relationship between international and domestic prices of wheat in Algeria. The short-run adjustments are also examined with asymmetric error correction models. The analysis is based on annual series of international and domestic wheat prices. The time interval for the study runs from 1965 to 2021 using official data from national and international official organizations. The results indicate that the price transmission between the domestic and international price level of wheat is asymmetric, especially in the presence of structural breaks. The asymmetric error correction model with threshold cointegration provides strong evidence supporting asymmetric price behavior. Increases in the international price of wheat are transmitted more quickly to domestic prices than declines, which exhibit the increased vulnerability of the domestic market to be reconsidered. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]