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2. Individuality and experimentation in traditional agriculture
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Johnson, Allen W. (author / Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY) and Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1972
- Published:
- USA: Plenum Publishing Corporation, New York, NY
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 44 Document Number: B05368
- Journal Title:
- Human Ecology
- Journal Title Details:
- 1 (2) : 149-59
- Notes:
- Evans, cited reference, Most observers agree upon the existence among traditional agriculturalists of a conservative attitude toward innovation and upon this conservatism being the rational result of a well-adapted set of existing techniques in combination with a marginal level of subsistence. This view, however, fails to take account of the readily demonstrated existence of both individual differences in agricultural practice and systematic experimentation are probably pervasive in traditional societies, and must be seen as an essential component of their adaptive processes, as important as the more familiar processes of traditional transmissions. (original)
3. Innovation adoption in Indian agriculture : the high yielding varieties programme
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Harriss, Barbara (author)
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1972
- Published:
- UK
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05237
- Journal Title:
- Modern Asian Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 6 (1) : 71-98
- Notes:
- INTERPAKS, Examines the adoption of high yielding varieties (HYV) in India, especially in the context of micro-scale planning within HYV programme. Planners working the implement acceptance of HYV assumed that innovated inputs are adapted simultaneously and at the correct levels of intensity when, in fact, this does not occur. Adoption rates vary greatly between innovations and between areas; position of innovations is low on the acceptance curve; by 1969 only an average 12% of all participants adopted correct acceptance of fertilizer, pesticide spraying, nursery cultivation of paddy and improved plowing practices. In addition, it is not the same 12% who adopt all improved practices. Reasons given for not adopting are: input cost, lack of control over irrigation, excessive risk, lack of information, not enough labor, and unavailability of inputs. Of these, the first three are most salient. Lack of rainfall and adequate storage facilities are additional barriers to adoption.