Non-Traditional Crops, Traditional Constraints : The Adoption And Diffusion Of Export Crops Among Guatemalan Smallholders

Abstract

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Spillovers from modern supply chains to traditional markets: product innovation and adoption by smallholders

“…Contrary to Carletto et al (2007), we find that nonland agricultural assets do not affect the speed of adoption, while nonagricultural assets do. Previous investments in agriculture are not important, because the hydroponics technology for sweet pepper is quite special, so that existing equipment is only of limited use.…”

“…As one would expect, the timing of the adoption decision matters, with earlier adopters gaining significantly more than later adopters. This is in line with findings by Carletto et al (2007) from their study in Guatemala. In our case, early adoption increases household income by 204,000 Baht (6,172 US$) or 78% compared to the sample mean.…”

“…Whereas some innovations and framework conditions favor adoption by larger farms, the opposite holds true in other situations (e.g., Matuschke and Qaim, 2008). However, interpretations should be done with care, as farm size is often correlated with or even used as a proxy for other factors such as wealth, access to credit, or risk aversion (Carletto et al, 2007; Feder et al, 1985; Reardon et al, 2009). In our case, farm size has a positive but very small effect on adoption.…”

Nontraditional crops, traditional constraints: The long‐term welfare impacts of export crop adoption among Guatemalan smallholders

“…Using duration models to explain the adoption and withdrawal process pertaining to snow pea production in the same communities as in this study, Carletto et al (1999, 2007) show that adverse institutional and market environment since the late 1980s, global process of growing toxicity and crowding out at village level, and price deterioration are among the factors reducing the likelihood of adoption, while boosting the probability of withdrawal subsequent to adoption.…”

The influence of socio-economic factors on uptake of rhizobia inoculant technology in the northern region

“…This implies that when years of inoculant introduction to farmers decrease by one year, the probability that a farmer uses soybean inoculant decrease by -.225 keeping all things constant From the analysis above, nine variables out of ten variables namely; Sex, Age, Marital Status, Educational level, Farming Experience, Radio Program, Video Show, Demonstration plot and Years of inoculant introduction had a joint influence on the dependent variable (Table 4). [13][14][15] Copyright: ©2018 Allotey et al…”