Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 99, Issue 4, Pages 988-1007Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1093/ajae/aaw098
Keywords
Agricultural technology adoption; India; social learning; social pressures
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- National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant [0649330]
- Agricultural and Applied Economics Association McCorkle Fellowship
- Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies International Research Travel Grant
- Cornell University Graduate School Research Travel Grant
- International Student and Scholar Office Grant
- International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
- American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS)
- Indian Statistical Institute (ISI)
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences [0649330] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This paper examines the role that social networks play in the adoption process of Bacillus thurigiensis (Bt) cotton, a type of genetically engineered cotton that has been available on the Indian market since 2002. Using a unique dataset and empirical methodology, I find that farmers appeared to have exclusively learned from the experimentation of a small set of progressive farmers in the village, that is, adoption by other (regular) farmers was not considered a useful source of information about the technology. Second, I find evidence of social pressures, originating from the belief that Bt cotton might be hazardous to the environment and livestock, which inhibited adoption, at least for some time.
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