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Predicting minimum tillage adoption among smallholder farmers using microlevel and policy variables
(SpringerOpen; Springer Verlag; Società Italiana di Economia Agraria, 2017)
Minimum tillage combined with mulching (MTM) is critical to conservation agriculture, yet its use by smallholder farmers raises challenging questions regarding adoption, diffusion and scaling at farm level. In this paper, ...
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Determinants of agricultural technology adoption under partial population awareness: the case of pigeonpea in Malawi
(SpringerOpen; Springer Verlag; Società Italiana di Economia Agraria, 2016)
There is exhaustive literature on technology adoption rates and the relationship between technology adoption and relevant socioeconomic and policy variables. Yet adoption estimates derived from the application of standard ...
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Perception and adoption of a new agricultural technology: evidence from a developing country
(Elsevier, 2018)
Adoption of new agricultural technologies is always at the center of policy interest in developing countries. In reality, despite the visible benefits of many of the new agricultural technologies, including machinery and ...
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Adoption and continued use of improved maize seeds: Case study of Central Ethiopia
(Academic Journals, 2010)
The literature on agricultural technology is limited on the issue of the continued use of an agricultural technology after it is adopted. This paper analyzes the factors that explain adoption as well as continued use of ...
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Agricultural technology adoption, commercialization and smallholder rice farmers’ welfare in rural Nigeria
(SpringerOpen; Springer Verlag; Società Italiana di Economia Agraria, 2016)
This study assessed the determinants of intensity of adoption of Improved Rice Varieties (IRVs) and the effect of market participation on farmers’ welfare in Nigeria using the Tobit and Heckman two-stage models, respectively. ...