Impact of agricultural extension services on the adoption of improved wheat variety in Ethiopia: A cluster randomized controlled trial

Yitayew, Asresu; Abdulai, Awudu; Yigezu, Yigezu A.; Deneke, Tilaye Teklewold; Kassie, Girma T.

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105605

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“…A few existing studies have employed RCTs and combined different types of training to promote the uptake of agricultural technology (Ogutu et al, 2018;Yitayew et al, 2021). This study adds to this existing research the female empowerment training component, which previous study did not.…”

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confidence: 94%

Impact of improved agricultural extension approaches on technology adoption: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in rural Tunisia

Dhehibi¹,

Dhraief

Ruediger³

et al. 2022

Ex. Agric.

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Summary Low and slow adoption of innovative technologies among smallholder farmers in Tunisia is a key agricultural development problem partly related to the existing technology transfer approach used in the country. The objective of this study is to analyse how to design innovative technology transfer strategies more effective in terms of increasing female and male farmers’ adoption of an improved barley variety, ‘Kounouz’, for small ruminant nutrition. A randomised controlled trial method was used with farmers in Tunisia to implement four extension treatments and to evaluate their effects on adoption of Kounouz. Difference-in-difference estimates showed that intensive agricultural trainings can significantly improve adoption of Kounouz. Technical trainings combined with economic and organisational training and female empowerment courses resulted in a higher adoption rate. This finding has important policy implications, because it suggests that ensuring more widespread and equitable adoption of improved technologies may not require changes in the research system, but rather introduction measures that ensure better access for women to gender-sensitive extension programmes given their positive impacts on technology adoption of the household.

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confidence: 94%

Impact of improved agricultural extension approaches on technology adoption: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in rural Tunisia

Dhehibi¹,

Dhraief

Ruediger³

et al. 2022

Ex. Agric.

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“…Over the last 4 decades, an impressive theoretical and empirical literature has been developed on the factors that influence the diffusion of new agricultural technologies in developing countries (e.g., Bachewe et al, 2018; Conley & Udry, 2010; Yitayew et al, 2021). These factors are generally categorized into demand and supply‐side and mediating constraints (Cai et al, 2015; De Janvry et al, 2016).…”

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Information acquisition and the adoption of improved crop varieties

Abdulai

2023

American J Agri Economics

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Inadequate information on the benefits of and knowledge about innovative agricultural technologies continue to be a major constraint to technology adoption among smallholder farmers in developing countries. The low adoption of new technologies is one of the causes of low productivity and high poverty incidence among smallholder farmers, particularly in Africa. In this paper, I briefly review the literature on social networks and technology diffusion, and argue that the diffusion potential of social networks is underexplored. I then present results from two empirical studies on the impact of social networks on the adoption of improved crop varieties in Ghana and Ethiopia. The results reveal that farmers' peer adoption decisions and experiences, as well as information from trained development agents positively and statistically influence their adoption decisions. I also find that network structural characteristics such as lower segmentation within networks, high credibility of the information, and high effectiveness and efficiency of the amount of information flow tend to improve information acquisition and speed up diffusion of improved crop varieties.

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“…This actor is the agricultural extension agent and the provider of consulting services as she can introduce modern technologies to all agricultural stakeholders and increase their multiple skills. For example, Ethiopian farmers' communication skills were improved after their interaction with extension services (Yitayew et al, 2021). The effect of agricultural extension is positively associated with technical e ciency, and it is shown that the agricultural extension service can enhance farmers' productivity and livelihood by educating them about the correct use of resources (Birkhaeuser et al, 1991;Athukorala, 2017).…”

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An economic assessment of the effect of agricultural extension activities on increasing production and farmers’ revenue: The case of irrigated wheat Production-Extension Model Sites in Iran

Amghani

Mojtahedi

Savari³

2023

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Agricultural extension is a key instrument to accomplish sustainable agricultural development by improving knowledge penetration in the agricultural sector. (EMSs) are a new extension approach in agriculture to create proper models for empowering farmers. This research analyzes the effect of EMSs on increasing irrigated wheat production versus the previous cultivation period. The statistical population was composed of the main farmers of irrigated wheat EMSs (N = 355) throughout Iran. The sample size was determined to be 180 by Cochran’s formula. The sample was taken by the stratified random sampling technique with proportional allocation. The results of the estimation of production cost function and extension activities cost showed that the variable of extension activities significantly affected irrigated wheat yield with a coefficient of 0.32 at the P < 0.01 level. The extension investment return in the EMSs was 0.66 t/ha. Based on the results, out of the final production value of the extension services provided to the main farmers, 13.3 percent had been spent as the cost of extension activities and 86.7 percent had been net profit gained by farmers. The results of the correlated t-test for farmers’ behavior before and after receiving the extension services showed significant differences in the amount of seed consumption, tillage cost per ha, labor cost per ha, irrigation frequency, the rate of biofertilizer and urea application, crop waste during harvest, the production cost of irrigated wheat per kg, crop yield, and income and net production profit per ha.

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Impact of agricultural extension services on the adoption of improved wheat variety in Ethiopia: A cluster randomized controlled trial

Cited by 36 publications

References 43 publications

Impact of improved agricultural extension approaches on technology adoption: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in rural Tunisia

Impact of improved agricultural extension approaches on technology adoption: Evidence from a randomised controlled trial in rural Tunisia

Information acquisition and the adoption of improved crop varieties

An economic assessment of the effect of agricultural extension activities on increasing production and farmers’ revenue: The case of irrigated wheat Production-Extension Model Sites in Iran

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