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Most adoption studies have employed cross-sectional data in a static discrete choice modelling framework to analyze why … adoption decision is made and thus does not incorporate the speed of adoption and the effect of time-dependent elements in … explaining adoption. The adoption speed of an innovation is important in various aspects. Based on data from a survey of a random …
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Alley farming was developed as a means of maintaining soil fertility in fields under permanent cultivation in Africa, as population pressure makes the traditional practice of slash-and-burn combined with fallowing unsustainable. It is an agroforestry system under which food crops are grown in...
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This study investigates the determinants affecting producers’ adoption of some Best Management Practices (BMPs … importance sampling. Education, gender, age, and on-farm residence are found to have significant effects on the adoption of some …
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The paper examines the joint adoption of conservation tillage, crop rotations, and soil testing by small and limited … Security Program, examine socioeconomic factors affecting adoption, and assess the interdependence between adopting different … conservation practices. Results indicate that conservation management, ethnicity, and farm characteristics affect practice adoption …
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adoption of these varieties in general, there is increasing pressure on breeding and technology dissemination programs to … desirable and undesirable attributes. In addition, it determines the adoption rates of these varieties and the factors that have … influenced the speed of adoption of the most adopted variety. Results show that NASE 1, NASE 2, NASE 3, NASE 4, NASE 10 and NASE …
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-economic factors affecting their decision. Survey data collected in 2007-8 from Alabama farmers about cover crop adoption and … management is utilized to estimate a cover crop adoption model. …
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Understanding how price regulations affect the adoption of new patent-protected pharmaceutical technologies is a … statistically significant and robust price effect in the adoption of new pharmaceutical technologies; low-prices result in reduced … and slower adoption. Concentrated therapeutic subgroups, reflecting market crowding constitutes a significant barrier to …
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