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AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 373-388Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2006.00169.x
Keywords
technology adoption; learning; the System of Rice Intensification (SRI); conformity effects
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This article explores the dynamics of smallholder technology adoption, with particular reference to a high-yielding, low external input rice production method in Madagascar. We present a simple model of technology adoption by farm households in an environment of incomplete financial and land markets. We then use a probit model and symmetrically censored least squares estimation of a dynamic tobit model to analyze the decisions to adopt, expand, and disadopt the method. We find that seasonal liquidity constraints discourage adoption by poorer farmers. Learning effects-both from extension agents and from other farmers-exert significant influence over adoption decisions.
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