Reddy, A. Adivi (author / Formerly Director of Extension, Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India) and Formerly Director of Extension, Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1981-09
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 77 Document Number: C04236
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: Management of transfer of farm technology. Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Rural Development, 1981. p. 69-84 (Paper presented at the National Workshop on Management of Transfer of Farm Technology; 1979 November 19-24; National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India), Discusses seven systems which constitute the transfer of technology, their functions and problems. These seven are research, extension, client, inputs, economic, psycho-socio-cultural and administrative-organizational systems, all of which are not discrete but overlapping.
Booth, Robert H. (author), Rhoades, Robert (author), Shaw, Roy (author), and Werge, Robert (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07434
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: Report of an exploratory workshop on the role of anthropologists and other social scientists in interdisciplinary teams developing improved food production technology. Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute, 1982. p. 1-8., This case study of potato production and storage in Peru demonstrates how and why anthropologists can positively contribute to the generation and transfer of improved agricultural technology. Reports the effects of introducing an anthropologists to a CIP sponsored project in Central Mantaro Valley of the Central Peruvian Andes to study post-harvest activities and problems of highland farmers.
Hillman, Jimmye E. (author) and Monke, Eric A. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1983
Published:
United Kingdom
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07429
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: A. Maunder and K. Ohkawa, eds. Growth and equity in agricultural development : Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference of agricultural economists. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Gower, 1983. p. 519-528., Reviews the substantial literature on agricultural technology transfer, with a focus on the key economic and institutional constraints which account for the stagnation of agricultural technology in developing nations. The failure of local institutions to develop new technologies has forced a reliance on international sources of both the private and public type. Profit constraints and differences in resource scarcity provide fundamental economic barriers to the development of new technology by foreign private interests. Another difficulty arises because international centers depend primarily on developed countries for investment funds. Since the developed countries see little direct benefit from these investments, high rates of return from successful research do not guarantee increases in financial support. These circumstances imply that the future development of efficient new technologies is likely to require the investment of additional resources at the local level.
Singh, Y.P. (author / Professor, Division of Agricultural Extension, IARI, New Delhi, India) and Professor, Division of Agricultural Extension, IARI, New Delhi, India
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1981-09
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 77 Document Number: C04235
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: Management of transfer of farm technology. Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Rural Development, 1981. p. 49-68 (Paper presented at the National Workshop on Management of Transfer of Farm Technology; 1979 November 19-24; National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India), Discusses the production dissemination and utilization of technology and observes that the natural as well as cultural environment affect technology. Credits the Indian agricultural research system as the major determinant of productivity change in dissemination of agricultural research. Concedes that determinants of the adoption are client orientation, environment, the technology itself, and communication variables. Concludes that technology transfer has been strangled by various non-technological factors.
Bandong, J.P. (author), de la Cruz, C.G. (author), Goodell, G.E. (author), Kenmore, P.E. (author), Litsinger, J.A. (author), and Lumaban, M.D. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07432
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: Report of an exploratory workshop on the role of anthropologists and other social scientists in interdisciplinary teams developing improved food production technology. Los Banos, Laguna, Philippines: International Rice Research Institute, 1982. p. 25-41., Describes how the interdisciplinary team formed by IRRI in 1978 to test and improve IRRI's integrated insect pest management (IPM) technology for farmers tilling small irrigated plots in Southeast Asia developed the technology from an initial Western orientation to its present form. Shows how IPM was tested in two projects in Central Luzon, each comprising five villages - one project "top down", the other "bottom up". Also describes how IPM was introduced in a control area with no attempt to organize farmers. Evaluates only the interdisciplinary research conducted in the "bottom up" villages where the project was the most successful.
Binswanger, Hans P. (author) and Ryan, James G. (author)
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1980
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 95 Document Number: C07419
Notes:
INTERPAKS, In: V. Kumble, ed., Proceedings of the International Symposium on Development and Transfer of Technology for Rainfed Agriculture and the SAT Farmer, 28 August - 1 September 1979, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 1980. p. 57-67., Discusses ICRISAT's evaluation of socioeconomic constraints to agricultural development. Identifies purpose of the efforts to better formulate research priorities and to improve the efficiency of "marketing" new technologies to farmers. Lists constraints, including variations in population densities, heterogeneity of semi-arid tropics resource endowments, role of risk in farmer's decision-making, marketing institutions, human institutional requirements, and efficiency and equity concerns in research resource allocation. Notes its necessity for close collaboration among scientists from many disciplines.
Busch, Lawrence (author), Lacy, William B. (author), and Lacy: Assistant Dean for Research, College of Agriculture, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Busch: Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1991
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 89 Document Number: C06114
Notes:
Jim F. Evans Collection; see c06599 for book; Paper presented at the Third Annual National Agricultural Biotechnology Council Meeting, In: MacDonald, June Fessenden, ed. Agricultural biotechnology at the crossroads : biological social & institutional concerns. Ithaca, NY : National Agricultural Biotechnology Council, 1991. p. 153-168
Sen, D. (author / Senior Extension Methods Officer, Central Plant Protection Training Institute, Hyderabad, India) and Senior Extension Methods Officer, Central Plant Protection Training Institute, Hyderabad, India
Format:
Conference paper
Publication Date:
1981-09
Published:
India
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 77 Document Number: C04238
Notes:
Phase 2, INTERPAKS, In: Management of transfer of farm technology. Hyderabad, India : National Institute of Rural Development, 1981. p. 98-102 (Paper presented at the National Workshop on Management of Transfer of Farm Technology; 1979 November 19-24; National Institute of Rural Development, Hyderabad, India), Distinguishes between economic development in industrialized and developing countries and points out the importance of agriculture to the latter. Emphasizes that provision of infrastructure is as important to the adoption of innovations as are socio-economic factors.
