Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India

Matuschke, Ira; Mishra, R.R.; Qaim, Matin

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2007.04.005

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“…In addition, farmers were willing to pay 1.9% more for seed, with a 1% increase in yield of maize (Table 5). These results are consistent with those from a study by Matuschke et al (2007), who found that due to the higher yield potential of hybrid wheat, farmers in India were willing to pay for hybrid wheat seed even though farmer willingness to pay was 15% below current market prices. In another study, farmers in Nigeria and Benin were also found to prefer improved over local rice varieties because of higher yields (Horna et al, 2007).…”

Section: Proportion Of Farmers Maize Varietysupporting

confidence: 91%

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Farmers’ preferences for maize attributes in eastern and Western Uganda

Ajambo¹,

Elepu²,

Bashaasha³

et al. 2017

Afr. Crop Sci. J.

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Section: Proportion Of Farmers Maize Varietysupporting

confidence: 91%

“…The semilog functional form was used because it has been demonstrated to be the best fit model compared to linear and loglinear functional forms in most studies (Brorsen et al, 1988;Matuschke et al 2007). …”

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Farmers’ preferences for maize attributes in eastern and Western Uganda

Ajambo¹,

Elepu²,

Bashaasha³

et al. 2017

Afr. Crop Sci. J.

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“…Such a network essentially provides informal communication channels, which farmers employ to receive and share information on new technologies or practices [36], as well as to learn individual productive behaviors [37]. As a result, numerous empirical studies demonstrated that social networks do significantly influences the adoption decision of individual farmers [36][37][38][39][40]. Additionally, Sherchan et al [41] pointed out that the success of a social network for an individual relies on the level of trust between himself and other members in the same community.…”

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What Motivates Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change? The Case of Apple Farmers of Shaanxi in China

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Past studies showing that barriers to farmers' adaptation behaviors are focused on their socio-economic factors and resource availability. Meanwhile, psychological and social considerations are sparingly mentioned, especially for the related studies in developing countries. This study investigates the impact of psychological factors and social appraisal on farmers' behavioral intention to adopt adaptation measures for the aforementioned reason, due to climate change and not to anthropogenic climate change. Drawing on the protection motivation theory, a threat, coping, social appraisal, maladaptation and behavioral intention to adopt adaptation measures (TCSMBI) model was proposed to predict farmers' adaptation. A structural equation model was then employed to analyze the relationships between variables in the TCSMBI model with 658 apple farmers in Shaanxi province, China. The empirical results showed that threat appraisal and coping appraisal have positive and significant impacts on behavioral intention to climate change. Moreover, threat appraisal reduces the occurrence of maladaptation, and social appraisal tends to have significantly positive impacts on threat appraisal and coping appraisal.

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“…Heterosis for characters adapted to stress environments has been successfully achieved in the past and could enable the breeders to develop varieties for better performance under stress. Hybrid wheats may be adopted even in less-favorable, semi-subsistence environments provided there are efficiency gains in seed production and distribution systems (Matuschke et al 2007). A significant portion of wheat growing areas in India comprising southern Haryana, whole Rajasthan, Madhya Pardesh, Gujrat, eastern Uttar Pardesh and part of Bihar faces abiotic stresses particularly terminal heat and water deficiency during reproductive phase.…”

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Wheat Production in India: Technologies to Face Future Challenges

Yadav¹,

Singh

Jain³

et al. 2010

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To meet the growing demands under the constrains of depleting natural resources, environmental fluctuation and increased risk of epidemic outbreak, the task of increasing wheat production has become daunting. The euphoria generated by first green revolution is very quickly subsiding and the second generation problems are becoming more intense with each passing year. The factors responsible for first green revolution seem to be exhausting rapidly and there is immediate need to develop the technologies which can not only increase the wheat production but also sustain at higher level without adversely affecting the natural resources. More investment on germplasm improvement, conservation agriculture including breeding for varieties adaptive to conservation agriculture, hybrid wheats, broadening the genetic base of the varieties at farmers level, wide scale utilization of alien translocations in the breeding programme along with integration of marker assisted selection and other innovative approaches with traditional breeding methods are some of the technologies which can yield dividend in the coming years.

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Adoption and Impact of Hybrid Wheat in India

Cited by 79 publications

References 18 publications

Farmers’ preferences for maize attributes in eastern and Western Uganda

Farmers’ preferences for maize attributes in eastern and Western Uganda

What Motivates Farmers’ Adaptation to Climate Change? The Case of Apple Farmers of Shaanxi in China

Wheat Production in India: Technologies to Face Future Challenges

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