Barbosa, Mariza (author), Junior, Raimundo Gomes (author), Strauss, John (author), Teixeira, Sonia (author), Thomas, Duncan (author), and Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA; EMBRAPA-SEP, Brasilia, Brazil; EMBRAPA Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Arroz e Fejao (CNPAF), Goiania, Brazil; Yale University, New Haven, CT; EMBRAPA-SEP, Brasilia, Brazil
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1992-08
Published:
Netherlands
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 87 Document Number: C05924
This paper explores reduced form determinants of the adoption of certain technologies by upland rice and soybean farmers in the Center-West region of Brazil. We merge community level data on the availability and quality of publicly provided infrastructure, principally extension, to the farm level data containing information on farmer human capital as well as land quantity and quality. By using community level measures of availability and quality of extension, we avoid problems of endogeneity of farm level measures of extension use. We find positive impacts of farmer education on the diffusion process, in accordance with other studies. We also isolate effects of the quality in regional extension investment as measured by the average experience of technical extension staff. These results indicate that investments in human capital of extension workers does have a payoff in terms of farmer adoption of improved cultivation practices.
Page 69 in Extension Circular 534, Review of Extension Research, January through December 1960, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Brief description of a thesis of this title for the master of science degree in agricultural extension, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 1960. 199 pages.
Linton, Ralph (author) and Kardiner, Abram (author)
Format:
Research report
Publication Date:
1952
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C12489
Notes:
Francis C. Byrnes Collection, Pages 222-231 in Guy E. Swanson, Theodore M. Newcomb and Eugene L. Hartley (eds.), Readings in Social Psychology, Revised Edition. Henry Holt and Company, New York. 680 p.
Bose, Santi Priya (author / Socio-agro-economic Research Organization, Department of Agriculture, Calcutta, India) and Socio-agro-economic Research Organization, Department of Agriculture, Calcutta, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1964
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 43 Document Number: B05155
Dasgupta, Satadal (author / Rural Sociology at the Kalyani University, West Bengal, India) and Rural Sociology at the Kalyani University, West Bengal, India
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1967
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 45 Document Number: B05528
