Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 28, Issue 21, Pages 27238-27249Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-021-12425-8
Keywords
Climate-smart agriculture; Agricultural innovation; Adoption; Productivity; Pakistan
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- National Science Foundation of People's Republic of China [71673216]
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The study found that factors such as education, access to credit, tubewell ownership, farming experience, and access to extension services positively influence farmers' adoption of Climate-Smart agricultural practices. Furthermore, propensity score matching results demonstrated that adoption of CSA practices is economically advantageous, financially beneficial, environmentally desirable, and pro-poor.
Traditional agricultural practices, extensive use of inputs, and abrupt changes in climate have been of great concern to agriculture production around the world, especially in developing countries. Therefore, it is very vital to adopt and expand Climate-Smart agricultural (CSA) practices. By the cross-sectional data of 350 cotton farmers from major cotton-growing districts of Punjab Pakistan, adoption of CSA practices such as irrigation and soil and crop management practices is evaluated, and factors which affect farmer adoption decision and its impact on poverty, income, and yield are estimated by using logistic regression and propensity score matching (PSM) respectively. The results found that education, access to credit, tubewell ownership, farming experience, and access to extension services positively influenced farmers' adoption behavior. Further, PSM results revealed that adoption of CSA practices is economical, financially, environmentally desirable, and pro-poor. According to these findings, ultimately adoption would help in reducing the negative impact of climate change on the cotton crop by ensuring profits, removing the barriers in the adoption, disseminating the information about CSA, and strictly enforcing the regulations for CSA.
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