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2. Differential technology adoption and income distribution in Pakistan : implications for research resource allocation
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Renkow, Mitch (author / Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics, North Carolina State University)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1993-02
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07961
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 75 (1) : 33-43
- Notes:
- James F. Evans Collection, A multi-market model of technological change in food production is used to simulate the long-run income distributional implications of differential diffusion of currently available wheat technologies in Pakistan. The results indicate that a research agenda emphasizing technologies suited to Pakistan's favored production environments would enhance overall production without compromising inter-group equity. It is found that when commodity prices are market determined, net consuming households are the major beneficiaries of technological change. However, in the more common situation of government intervention in markets for staple foods, net producing households are the principal beneficiaries of change. (original)
3. Education and innovation adoption in agriculture: evidence from hybrid rice in China
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Lin, Justin Yifu (author / Associate Professor of Economics, Peking University.)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1991-08
- Published:
- USA: Ames, IA : American Agricultural Economics Association.
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 92 Document Number: C06832
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 73 (3) : 713-723
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 92014245, This paper uses the diffusion of F1 hybrid rice as a case for examining the effects of education on the adoption of new technology in China. A simple behavioral model that treats the adoption of hybrid rice as a portfolio selection problem is presented. The implications of the model are tested with farm-level data collected from a sample of 500 households in Hunan Province. The results from a dichotomous profit model and a two-limit obit model are consistent with the hypothesis that education has a positive impact on the adoption of new technology. (original)