early phases of sweet pepper adoption. Such constraints need to be overcome, so that smallholder farmers are better prepared …

location was a key variable influencing the adoption of soil testing, human capital and innovativeness of farmers had a … significant impact on the adoption of VRT. A double selectivity model applied to correct for sample selection bias shows that … gains in nitrogen productivity due to the two adoption decisions are largest for farms with below average soil quality and …

influence the adoption and intensity of utilization of BNMS technologies in the NGS of Nigeria. Results showed that less than 10 …, by 2005 the adoption of BNMS-rotation had reached 40% while that of BNMS-manure had reached 48%. A number of factors such … significant in determining farmers’ adoption decisions on BNMS-manure while off-farm income was found to be significant in …

probability of adoption. Higher levels of off-farm income are associated with reduced intercropping in immature rubber stands …. Farmers who are sole owners of the land and engaged in full or part-time rubber farming show lower adoption rates than other … size, and the nature of the land (fiat/sloped) do not significantly influence adoption. These conclusions were obtained …

The aim of this study was to assess the impact of adoption of new high-yielding varieties (NERICA) of rice on its … the same in NERICA and Non-NERICA villages. Moreover, at farmer level, the average impact of NERICA adoption on number of …

whether there are any consistent messages on why some countries seem to be advancing adoption of the technology, while others … are not. We consider the range of claims in existing literature on adoption tendencies and then use structural equation … modelling to test and estimate these a priori determinants of GM adoption. We found that being an exporter of maize and soybeans …