Market Returns, Infrastructure and the Supply and Demand for Extension Services

Frisvold, George B.; Fernicola, Kathleen; Langworthy, Mark

doi:10.1111/0002-9092.00204

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“…We expected that farmers with access to extension would be better oriented towards market sales since they are better informed not only on production but also on marketing issues. This contradicts some studies (for example, Dinar and Keynan 2001;Hanson and Just 2001;Frisvold et al 2001) that have found interesting results for paid extension and its impacts on smallholder agriculture. While we are not certain about this unexpected result, this may be a consequence of the ineffectiveness of extension service in Ghana, or its inability to incorporate market information in its activities.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Farmgate versus market centre sales: a multi-crop approach

2016

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Smallholder farmers have two basic decisions to make regarding selling their surplus produce: selling at farmgate at low prices or travelling to a market centre where higher prices are offered while incurring some transaction costs. Whichever decision is made has implications for poverty alleviation efforts. Previous studies have ignored modelling participation and market choice simultaneously. Taking a multi-crop approach, this paper fills the gap by investigating the key determinants of market participation decisions of smallholder farmers in Ghana using the sample selectivity probit model in order to account for potential endogeneity and selectivity bias and thus obtain unbiased estimates. Household survey data in the Upper West region of Ghana for the 2011 production season are used to achieve the goal of the study. The results reveal that yields of maize and groundnut and market information are the simultaneous determinants of market participation decisions while age of the farmer, yields of the two crops, membership of farmer organisation and prices of the two crops simultaneously determine the choice of market. These imply that policies that enhance productivity of these smallholders and market information are vital in the drive for a commercially oriented agriculture. Also, the incentives to incur transaction costs to market centres to benefit from remunerative prices lie in measures to increase yields.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 62%

Farmgate versus market centre sales: a multi-crop approach

2016

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“…We include “Education” as a (somewhat crude) projector of the ability of the farmer to process information. We hypothesize that access to information is reflected by the level of contact with the agents and use the variable “Extension” following a considerable precedent (see, in particular, Dinar and Keynan, ; Frisvold et al., ; Hanson and Just, ; Holloway and Ehui, ).…”

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Crossbred cow adoption and its correlates: Countable adoption specification search in Sri Lanka's small holder dairy sector

Edirisinghe

Holloway

2015

Agricultural Economics

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Considerable specification choice confronts countable adoption investigations and there is need to measure, formally, the evidence in favor of competing formulations. This article presents alternative countable adoption specifications-hitherto neglected in the agricultural-economics literature-and assesses formally their usefulness to practitioners. Reference to the left side of de Finetti's (1937) famous representation theorem motivates Bayesian unification of agricultural adoption studies and facilitates comparisons with conventional binary-choice specifications. Such comparisons have not previously been considered. The various formulations and the specific techniques are highlighted in an application to crossbred cow adoption in Sri Lanka's small-holder dairy sector.JEL classifications: C11, O33, Q12

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“…One major line of economic research on extension studies the efficiency and quality of extension services, with a particular focus on how extension services respond to the demand for information that comes from their clientele (see e.g., Dinar 1996Dinar , 1989Frisvold, Fernicola, and Langworthy). Most of the analysis is done at a state or country level using a supply and demand framework to understand the factors influencing the "market" for extension services.…”

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The Productivity Effects of Extension Appointments in Land-Grant Colleges

Foltz¹,

Barham²

2009

Review of Agricultural Economics

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This article analyzes the primary activities of agricultural college faculty with and without extension appointments using survey data. The evidence suggests that differences between extension professors and others in agricultural colleges in terms of research production are small for minor extension appointments, but show significant and increasing trade-offs between extension and research outputs above a 40% extension appointment. The evidence is broadly suggestive of the potential for gains from exploiting complementarities between extension and research rather than from pursuing high levels of specialization. The work concludes with implications for the role of state specialists in Cooperative Extension.O ver the past several decades, commentators and experts have debated the role and function of Cooperative Extension in land-grant universities, and have even called into question its very survival (Hoag; Ilvento; National Research Council; Peters; Wolf and Zilberman). Budgetary pressures, an expanding scope of thematic activities, a decline in the relative importance of agriculture, growing private extension services, and demands for better integration of research and extension have all been factors driving discussions on the future of Cooperative Extension. Significant changes in organizational form and direction have been discussed, but the literature has paid relatively little attention to the productivity of "state specialists"-in particular, tenure-track faculty with extension appointments-in the Land-Grant system. 1 Some have viewed these state specialists as the "intellectual cutting edge" of the Cooperative Extension system because their appointments require scholarly research explicitly oriented toward concerns of the public and private clientele of the system (see e.g., Radhakrishna; Woeste, Waddill, and Arrington). Certainly, who state specialists are, how they perform in research and extension, and how

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Market Returns, Infrastructure and the Supply and Demand for Extension Services

Cited by 25 publications

References 7 publications

Farmgate versus market centre sales: a multi-crop approach

Farmgate versus market centre sales: a multi-crop approach

Crossbred cow adoption and its correlates: Countable adoption specification search in Sri Lanka's small holder dairy sector

The Productivity Effects of Extension Appointments in Land-Grant Colleges

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