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Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana : Insights From a Recent Field Study
Diao, Xinshen - 2018
Ghana is one of a few African countries where agricultural mechanization has recently undergone rapid development. Except for places in the forest zone where stumps are still an issue in fields, tractors used for plowing and maize shelling have been widely adopted even among small farmers....
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IoT-Enabled Farms and Climate-Adaptive Agriculture Technologies : Investment Lessons From Singapore
Montesclaros, Jose Ma. Luis - 2019
The adoption of climate-adaptive agricultural technologies (CAATs) for extensive (outdoor) agriculture is stalled by … one way of helping bridge these gaps is for providers and users of CAATs for extensive agriculture to learn from the … practices of those in CAATs for intensive (indoor) agriculture. Indoor CAATs are already receiving significant private …
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Factor Endowments, Wage Growth, and Changing Food Self-Sufficiency : Evidence from Country-Level Panel Data
Otsuka, Keijiro; Liu, Yanyan; Yamauchi, Futoshi - 2013
increase on Asian agriculture that traditionally used family labor intensively on small farms. The empirical evidence supports … inducing the substitution of labor by machines in agriculture. However, this process is less successful in the countries that … near future, Asian agriculture can face a challenge in maintaining domestic food production. Given the large size of …
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Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture : Ex Ante Analysis of Promising and Alternative Crop Technologies Using DSSAT and IMPACT
Robinson, Sherman; Mason-D'Croz, Daniel; Islam, Shahnila; … - 2016
simulation models of global agriculture to do long-run scenario analysis of the effects of climate change and various adaptation …
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Gender and Agricultural Mechanization : A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Impacts of Multi-Crop Reaper-Harvester Service Provision in Bangladesh
Theis, Sophie; Krupnik, Timothy J.; Sultana, Nasrin; … - 2019
Farmer hiring of agricultural machinery services is common in South Asia. Informal fee-for-service arrangements have positioned farmers so they can access use of machinery to conduct critical, time-sensitive agricultural tasks like land preparation, seeding, irrigation, harvesting and post-...
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Changing Returns-to-Scale and Deepening of Factor-Endowments-Induced Specialization : Exploring Broader Linkage Between Agricultural Mechanization and Agricultural Transformation i...
Takeshima, Hiroyuki; Kumar, Anjani - 2020
Heterogeneity in factor endowments and the degree of specializations induced by comparative advantages are among the crucial factors that affect the overall productivity of the economy. Few studies, however, investigate what strengthens such endowment-related specialization patterns in the...
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Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi (PM-KISAN) and the Adoption of Modern Agricultural Technologies in Uttar Pradesh, India
Varshney, Deepak - 2020
characteristics. The scheme has significantly helped those who are relatively more dependent on agriculture and have poor access to …
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Can Agricultural Aspirations Influence Preferences for New Technologies? : Cropping Systems and Preferences for High-Efficiency Irrigation in Punjab, Pakistan
Bell, Andrew R. - 2017
In the face of increasing environmental stresses, there is a critical need to improve water-use efficiency in many arid and semiarid agroclimatic zones. Drip irrigation is a high-efficiency irrigation technology that can improve water-use efficiency in currently irrigated areas and transform...
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Stimulating Agricultural Technology Adoption : Lessons from Fertilizer Use Among Ugandan Potato Farmers
Nazziwa-Nviiri, Lydia - 2017
In the context of a growing population in an already densely populated area, agricultural yields will need to increase without putting additional stress on the environment. The adoption of modern inputs by smallholders is an important ingredient of agricultural transformation. In this study we...
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The Impact of the Use of New Technologies on Farmers’ Wheat Yield in Ethiopia : Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Abate, Gashaw Tadesse - 2015
This study examines the impact of the Wheat Initiative technology package promoted by the research and extension systems in Ethiopia on wheat growers in the highlands of the country. The package includes improved wheat seed, a lower seeding density, row planting, fertilizer recommendations, and...
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