Determinants of Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties in Northern Sindh, Pakistan

Chandio, Abbas Ali; Jiang, Yuansheng

doi:10.1016/j.rsci.2017.10.003

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“…This could be due to the fact that credit acquisition enables farming households to acquire productivity enhancing inputs and other services capable of transforming apple enterprises. Similar findings have also been observed by Chandio and Yuansheng (2018) in Pakistan and Elias et al (2016) in Ethiopia who found out that credit access enhances the adoption of improved varieties and other inputs such as inorganic fertilizers which are essential for increased production. On the contrary, Teklewold et al (2013) study in Ethiopia revealed that credit constrained households were less likely to use improved varieties such as inorganic fertilizers.…”

Section: Factors Influencing Farmer's Decision To Adopt Apple Managemsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…The marginal effect of 0.082 for the size of the apple farm means that any additional increase in apple acreage increases the probability of the decision to adopt AMP by 8.2 percent other factors held constant (Table 7). These findings are in tandem with most empirical literature and studies conducted by Abubakar et al (2016), Singh and Varshney (2016) and Chandio and Yuansheng (2018) who observed that producers operating on large sized farms are more likely to adopt better management practices, willing to invest in modern technology, possess more resource inputs for investment and take into consideration the environmental concerns.…”

Section: Factors Influencing Farmer's Decision To Adopt Apple Managemsupporting

confidence: 85%

“…The temperate fruits that have been evaluated, apples and pears show potential for adaptability and economic productivity in the highlands (Turyomurugyendo et al, 2004;Chemining'wa et al, 2005). Adoption of new technologies can be a feasible option for enhancing household incomes and welfare (Chandio & Yuansheng, 2018). Although apple enterprise has become a gainful cash crop for the people of Southwestern Uganda, its production is still challenging especially on the side of growers due to the perennial nature of the crop and hence its production is still at a subsistence level.…”

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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision to Adopt Apple Management Practices in Southwestern Highlands, Uganda

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Worldwide apples account for fifty (50) percent of the world's deciduous fruit tree production. Despite the benefits that come with apple production, adoption has been slow especially among smallholder farmers in Southwestern Highlands. This present study was therefore conducted to identify apple management practices (AMPs) and also examine the factors influencing farmer decision to adopt AMPs. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select 52 apple growing households in the districts of Kabale, Kisoro, Kanungu and Rukungiri that form Southwestern Highlands. Probit regression model was employed and the estimation procedure followed Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) approach. Results from the descriptive statistics indicated that the most applied management practices included weeding, bending and staking, pesticide application and defoliation among others. Probit regression results showed that sex of the farmer, average number of fruits per tree, household labor force, farm size and access to credit had a positive and statistically significant effect on farmers' decision to adopt AMPs (p<0.05) while age of the farmer, orchard location, obstruction by birds and off-farm income source had a negative and statistically significant influence on farmers' decision to adopt AMPs (p<0.05). In view of the above, there is need to identify and address gender differences in terms of engagement in apple production targeting more women. Research needs to come up with an effective but affordable remedy against pests especially birds, strategies of attracting and maintaining youth into apple farming need to be explored and implemented since apple farming is labor intensive and is dominated by aging farmers, research and extension need to explore appropriate and cost effective avenues for farmers to access credit, accurate and quality agricultural information.

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Section: Factors Influencing Farmer's Decision To Adopt Apple Managemsupporting

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Section: Factors Influencing Farmer's Decision To Adopt Apple Managemsupporting

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision to Adopt Apple Management Practices in Southwestern Highlands, Uganda

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“…We suggest that the older the farmers, the longer the years it will take to give up the old varieties to adopt the new varieties of the ROK and the NERICA. That implies that an increase in the farmer's age would result in fewer chances of improved rice variety adoption [19,28,36]. On a similar note, the adoption of improved rice varieties could be regarded as a managerial concern that requires specific skills, which are often gained through education.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Most of these studies have employed cross-sectional data to estimate a binary-like model for static analysis of their technology choice decisions [34][35][36]. Nonetheless, the adoption of technology is a dynamic process that considers time as a crucial factor, and the explanatory variable may change during the observation period [37,38].…”

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Do Land Ownership and Agro-Ecological Location of Farmland Influence Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties? Evidence from Sierra Leone

2019

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This study investigates the impact of farmland ownership and agro-ecological location on the adoption of the two most important sources of improved rice varieties (NERICA and ROK) in the context of Sierra Leone. In terms of farmland ownership, the results showed that farmers who cultivated their own land had a higher tendency of remaining as non-adopters of improved varieties, but those who rented farmland or were engaged in sharecropping had higher adoption rates of improved rice varieties. Also, the location of farmland (uplands or inland valley swamps) determined the rates of adoption of improved varieties differently. For instance, upland regions showed faster adoption of ROK varieties, but inland valley areas showed faster adoption of NERICA varieties. We also examined the survival rates of local rice varieties. The adoption of improved varieties was only occurring at a very low rate, and the farmers' adoption of ROK varieties was swifter than for NERICA varieties. This study recommends that policies advocating the adoption of improved rice varieties in Sierra Leone must take into consideration the patterns of farmland ownership and location.

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Adoption of improved soybean and gender differential productivity and revenue impacts: Evidence from Nigeria

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Manda

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Food and Energy Security

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Despite the considerable soybean varietal improvement and dissemination efforts in Nigeria and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, empirical evidence on farm-level yield and revenue impacts of improved soybean varieties (ISVs) from a gender perspective are limited. In this paper, we analyze the impact of the adoption of ISVs on soybean yield and net revenue, and the associated gender differential effects in northern Nigeria. We use the endogenous and exogenous switching treatment effects regression frameworks to estimate the impacts. We find that the adoption of ISVs significantly increased soybean yield and net revenue of the soybean-producing households by 26% and 32%, respectively. In addition, we find that the gender gap in yield between male and female-headed soybean-producing households was small, with a yield gap of about 1%. However, we find a substantial gender gap in soybean net revenue, as the net revenue of female-headed households was lower by about 20%, as compared to male-headed households.Overall, our findings show that policymakers and their development partners can leverage varietal improvement to boost the yields of both male-and femaleheaded households. However, closing the gender gap in crop income necessitates reducing the disparity in market linkages so that the female farmers can equally have better market access.

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Determinants of Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties in Northern Sindh, Pakistan

Cited by 101 publications

References 23 publications

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision to Adopt Apple Management Practices in Southwestern Highlands, Uganda

Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decision to Adopt Apple Management Practices in Southwestern Highlands, Uganda

Do Land Ownership and Agro-Ecological Location of Farmland Influence Adoption of Improved Rice Varieties? Evidence from Sierra Leone

Adoption of improved soybean and gender differential productivity and revenue impacts: Evidence from Nigeria

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