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7 articles found for keyword search: +technology +adoption

  • Digital Technology Adoption and Potential in Southeast Asian Agriculture

    Jose Ma Luis Montesclaros and Paul S. Teng
    While the rural agriculture sector has traditionally been seen as backward relative to the urban industrial and services sectors, it is a potential “low-hanging fruit” ripe for a much-needed digital transformation for agricultural development. ASEAN has seen a U-turn in progress in...
    Volume 20 Issue No. 2 (December 2023)

  • Expert Elicitation for Assessing Agricultural Technology Adoption: The Case of Improved Rice Varieties in South Asian Countries

    Takuji W. Tsusaka, Ma. Lourdes Velasco, Takashi Yamano, and Sushil Pandey
    Cultivar-specific adoption information is imperative for agricultural research organizations to make strategic research plans for crop-genetic development. However, such data are often unavailable in developing countries or obsolete and unreliable even when they exist. A budget-friendly and reliable...
    Volume 12 Issue No. 1 (June 2015)

  • What Happened to PhilRice's Microtiller? A Scaling Study

    Jaime A. Manalo IV, Louie Gerard F. Orcullo, Teresa Joi P. de Leon, and Marco Antonio M. Baltazar
    This study inquires on the outscaling of the microtiller, a machine developed by the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice) in the 1990s to address the tedious rice land cultivation in the Cordillera highlands of the Philippines. Stakeholders of the project were interviewed, particularly...
    Volume 19 Issue No. 2 (December 2022)

  • The Microeconomics of Agricultural Development: Risk, Institutions, and Agricultural Policy

    James A. Roumasset
    Assertions of pervasive inefficiency in the behavior and organization of developing agriculture are found to be based on unsound methodologies. Models apparently based on expected utility theory are theoretically flawed and use highly restrictive assumptions that make them largely irrelevant for...
    Volume 21 20th Anniversary Issue (October 2024)

  • Drivers of Successful Adoption of Eco-innovation: Case Studies of Agricultural Cooperatives in Vietnam

    Huong Lan Pham, Huong Thu Nguyen, Ha Thanh Nguyen, and Hung Vu Nguyen
    Research shows that external factors dominate the key determinants of eco-innovation (EI) adoption in organizations in the agriculture sector. Studies are needed to understand the link between internal organizational capabilities and EI adoption. Given the heterogeneity in the types of agricultural...
    Volume 21 Issue No. 1 (June 2024)

  • Soil Conservation Decisions and Upland Corn Productivity: A Philippine Case Study

    Agnes C. Rola, Asa Jose U. Sajise, Dieldre S. Harder, and Joe Marvin P. Alpuerto
    This paper empirically investigates whether farmers who adopt soil conservation measures derive productivity gains. A twelve-year (1994-2006) panel data in Bukidnon, Philippines was used to quantify the indirect relationship between soil conservation technology adoption and upland corn productivity...
    Volume 6 Issue No. 2 (December 2009)

  • Determinants of Crop Choices by Bangladeshi Farmers: A Bivariate Probit Analysis

    Sanzidur Rahman
    Using a bivariate probit model, the study jointly determines the factors underlying the probability of Bangladeshi farmers adopting a diversified cropping system and/or modern rice technology. Results reveal that the availability of irrigation is the single most important determinant of the decision...
    Volume 5 Issue No. 1 (June 2008)

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