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2. 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)
3. Soil erosion, intertemporal profit, and the soil conservation decision
- Collection:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
- Contributers:
- Debertin, David L. (author), Pagoulatos, Angelos (author), Sjarkowi, Fachurrozi (author), and Pagoulatos: Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, KY; Debertin: Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Kentucky, KY; Sjarkowi: Former graduate research assistant, University of Kentucky, KY
- Format:
- Journal article
- Publication Date:
- 1989-12
- Published:
- USA
- Location:
- Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 83 Document Number: C05160
- Journal Title:
- Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics
- Journal Title Details:
- 21 (2) : 55-62.
- Notes:
- AGRICOLA IND 90017248, This study developed an intertemporal profit function to determine optimal conservation adoption strategies under alternative scenarios with respect to crop prices, relative yields, discount rates, and other assumptions. Special emphasis was placed on determining from the analysis when the switchover from conventional to soil-conserving practices should take place. Technological change was incorporated by allowing crop yields to vary over time. Our analysis thus provides a new, more precise measurement of the cumulative net benefit differential. The optimal period for switchover from conventional to soil-conserving practices was found to vary depending on the assumptions made about corn Prices and discount rates. Empirical results were based on an erosion damage function (EDF) for Western Kentucky corn production.