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Farmer assessment of velvetbean as a green manure in Veracruz, Mexico : (Record no. 53134)

MARC details
000 -LEADER
fixed length control field 03664nam a22003857a 4500
001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field G63786
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field MX-TxCIM
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20220603201612.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 121211s1997|f| mx |p||0|| | e eng d
022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER
International Standard Serial Number 1405-2830
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MX-TxCIM
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
072 #0 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE
Subject category code E14
090 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED LC-TYPE CALL NUMBER (OCLC); LOCAL CALL NUMBER (RLIN)
Classification number (OCLC) (R) ; Classification number, CALL (RLIN) (NR) Look under series title
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Soule, M.J.
9 (RLIN) 7208
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Farmer assessment of velvetbean as a green manure in Veracruz, Mexico :
Remainder of title experimentation and expected profits
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Mexico :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. CIMMYT,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1996.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent v, 21 pages
340 ## - PHYSICAL MEDIUM
Material base and configuration Printed
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement CIMMYT NRG Paper ;
Volume/sequential designation 97-02
International Standard Serial Number 1405-2830
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Open Access
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This study explores factors associated with farmers' decision to experiment with velvetbean (Mucuna spp.), a green manure, as a maize intercrop in three villages of Veracruz, Mexico. To asses whether velvetbean might be adopted on a wide scale in the region, the study also examines variation in farmers' perceptions of profits achieved by using the velvetbean intercrop compared to the farmer's usual practice. A stratified random sample of 92 households was selected from three villages reflecting differing conditions in the study area. All farmers who participated in a velvetbean extension program in the previous year were included; a random sample was drawn of the remaining households in the villages. The analysis reveals that the current practice to which farmers compared the maize/velvetbean intercrop played an important role in the perceived profitability of the new technology. Farmers who used neither herbicides nor fertilizer perceived a much larger positive difference in expected profits than farmers who compared the velvetbean intercrop with maize production using fertilizer or herbicides or both. Farmers with opportunities to earn off-farm income were less likely to experiment with velvetbean. Thus velvetbean may be adoptable on a wide scale by poorer farmers with limited access to chemical inputs and off-farm employment. However, these conclusions should be qualified in several ways. First, this study did not account for the full costs of using modern chemicals. Second, since the study was conducted, falling maize prices, coupled with higher prices for chemical inputs and more restricted availability of credit, may have made the intercrop more attractive to farmers. Third, the study was conducted early in the technology dissemination process, and farmers' judgments are based on only limited experience with velvetbean. Future experimentation with velvetbean may develop a method that increases production and modifies labor needs so that velvetbean, or another green manure, becomes more acceptable to farmers. In addition, the use of a green manure in combination with inorganic fertilizer might prove acceptable to farmers and enhance the sustainability of maize production in ways that the use of chemical fertilizer alone could not do. It would also be useful if future research could assess whether using velvetbean as an intercrop is actually more sustainable than current practices or whether social benefits of wide-scale velvetbean adoption would be greater than social costs.
546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE
Language note Text in English
591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES
Affiliation 9704|AGRIS 9701|STAT97|R96CIMPU|DSpace 1
595 ## - COLLECTION
Collection CIMMYT Publications Collection
599 ## - CAT IMAGEN
Cat imagen 63786.jpg
650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Innovation adoption
9 (RLIN) 1160
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Farmers
9 (RLIN) 1654
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Maize
9 (RLIN) 1173
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Zea mays
9 (RLIN) 1314
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
651 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
9 (RLIN) 5256
Geographic name Veracruz
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
9 (RLIN) 1318
Geographic name Mexico
Source of heading or term AGROVOC
856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10883/942
Link text Open Access through DSpace
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Book
Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Holdings
Date last seen Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Copy number Price effective from Koha item type Public note Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired
02/10/2015   CIMMYT NRG Paper / No. 97-02 623873 1 02/10/2015 Book Look under series title Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     CIMMYT Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 02/10/2015
02/10/2015   CIMMYT NRG Paper / No. 97-02 642423 2 02/10/2015 Book Look under series title Not Lost Dewey Decimal Classification     CIMMYT Publications Collection   CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library CIMMYT Knowledge Center: John Woolston Library 02/10/2015

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