1991
DOI: 10.1016/0169-5150(91)90027-i
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Abstract: 341Strauss, J., Barbosa, M., Teixeira, S., Thomas, D. and Junior, R.O., 1991. Role of education and extension in the adoption of technology: a study of upland rice and soybean farmers in Central-West Brazil. Agric. Econ., 5: 341-359.This paper explores reduced form determinants of the adoption of certain technologies by upland rice and soybean farmers in the Center-West region of Brazil. We merge community level data on the availability and quality of publicly provided infrastructure, principally extension, to… Show more

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“…For example, results reveal a strong and statistically significant (p<0.001) relationship between access to extension services and/or credit and fertilizer use irrespective of type -which supports various literatures (Feder & Slade, 1984;Igodan et al, 1988;Strauss et al, 1991;Akromov, 2009). A similar relationship is observed in the case of ownership of irrigation facility and/or livestock, and fertilizer use.…”
Section: Econometric Resultssupporting
confidence: 68%
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“…For example, results reveal a strong and statistically significant (p<0.001) relationship between access to extension services and/or credit and fertilizer use irrespective of type -which supports various literatures (Feder & Slade, 1984;Igodan et al, 1988;Strauss et al, 1991;Akromov, 2009). A similar relationship is observed in the case of ownership of irrigation facility and/or livestock, and fertilizer use.…”
Section: Econometric Resultssupporting
confidence: 68%
“…Farmers' access to information on agricultural technologies through increased government investment in extension services is crucial in revealing the opportunities of using such technologies, thereby reducing the subjective uncertainty on one hand and fostering increased adoption on the other (Strauss et al, 1991;Lanyintuo & Mekuria, 2005). Indeed, a number of studies (Feder & Slade, 1984;Igodan et al, 1988;Strauss et al, 1991;Deininger & Okidi, 2001;Akromov, 2009), report a positive relationship between access to extension services and use of improved technologies in general and fertilizer in particular. Nonetheless, the provision of extension services in Uganda is dominated by men who have little or no gender-aware training (Opio, 2003).…”
Section: Non-economic Factorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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Economists investigating consumer demand have accumulated considerable evidence showing that consumers generally have subjective preferences for characteristics of products and that their demand for products is significantly affected by their perceptions of the product's attributes. ), are typically used in economic models of the determinants of adoption decisions (Feder et al, 1985;Shakya and Flinn, 1985;Kebede et al, 1990;Polson and Spencer, 1991;Strauss et al, 1991).Economists investigating consumer demand have, however, accumulated considerable evidence showing that consumers generally have 0169-5150/95/$09.50

This paper tests the hypothesis that farmers' perceptions of technology characteristics significantly affect their adoption decisions.…”
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confidence: 95%
“…Numerous research have been conducted on the adopting factors of agricultural crop production in African and Asian countries (Adesina and Baidu-Forson, 1995;Bakh and Islam, 2005;Baidu, 1999;Batz et al, 1999;Forson, 1999;Gebresilassie and Bekele, 2014;Grisley and Mwesigwa, 1994;Hasan and Islam, 2010;Mussei et al, 2001;Poison and Spencer, 1991;Strauss et al, 1991;Ransom et al, 2003;Wilson et al, 2001;Wubeneh, 2001). Some sporadic researches have also been carried out on technical efficiency (Kaur et al, 2010), constraint to land and water productivity (Mudasser et al, 2001), adopting factors of wheat production (Nowak, 1992) and technological impacts on wheat cultivation in India (Tripathi et al, 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%