TY - JOUR
T1 - Duration Analysis of Technological Adoption in Ethiopian Agriculture
AU - Leggesse, D.
AU - Burton, Michael
AU - Ozanne, A.
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Duration analysis has been used to examine the impact of tirne-varying and time-invariant variables on the speed of adoption of fertiliser and herbicide by smallholder farmers in East and West Shewa in the central highlands of Ethiopia in the 25 years preceding 1996. The estimated models suggest that economic incentives were the most important determinants of the time farmers waited before adopting new technologies; traction power in the form of oxen and infrastructural factors (in particular proximity to markets) also appear to have been important influences, but less so than prices. Other agricultural inputs (area of farmland, labour, credit), extension services and farmers' personal characteristics (education, gender, age) appear to have had little, if any, effect on adoption behaviour. There is also evidence that the speed of adoption of herbicide, on bofh tef and wheat was slower than that of fertiliser.
AB - Duration analysis has been used to examine the impact of tirne-varying and time-invariant variables on the speed of adoption of fertiliser and herbicide by smallholder farmers in East and West Shewa in the central highlands of Ethiopia in the 25 years preceding 1996. The estimated models suggest that economic incentives were the most important determinants of the time farmers waited before adopting new technologies; traction power in the form of oxen and infrastructural factors (in particular proximity to markets) also appear to have been important influences, but less so than prices. Other agricultural inputs (area of farmland, labour, credit), extension services and farmers' personal characteristics (education, gender, age) appear to have had little, if any, effect on adoption behaviour. There is also evidence that the speed of adoption of herbicide, on bofh tef and wheat was slower than that of fertiliser.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2004.tb00117.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2004.tb00117.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0021-857X
VL - 55
SP - 613
EP - 631
JO - Journal of Agricultural Economics
JF - Journal of Agricultural Economics
IS - 3
ER -