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Eliciting farmers’ valuation for abiotic stress-tolerant rice in India
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This study used experimental choice modeling to examine farmers’ preferences for inbred and hybrid cultivars with a range of DT characteristics and to explore how these preferences differ among farmers, grouping farmers into ‘classes’ with similar
India’s rural employment guarantee boosts demand for agricultural technology
This study shows that the program (i.e., MGNREGA) leads small and marginal farm owners to adopt labor-saving technologies that replace labor-intensive alternatives.
Social networks and Indian farmers’ demand for agricultural custom hire services
It is difficult to tell who influences farmers’ adoption decisions, and whether farmers use the same technologies as others in their network because they learn from or mimic each other or because they share similar characteristics and circumstance
The impact of seed-policy reforms and intellectual property rights on crop productivity in India
Numerous studies have shown that the liberalization of seed market policies and stronger legal protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) can stimulate private investment in agriculture, especially crop genetic improvement.
Structure, competition and policy in India’s seed and agricultural biotechnology industries
This study1 examined current constraints to increased private sector investment in the seed and agricultural biotechnology (agbiotech) sectors in India, particularly in relation to rice, wheat and maize improvement.