TY  - JA
AU  - Byerlee,D.
TI  - Technology adaptation and adoption: the experience of seed-fertilizer technology and beyond
SN  - 0034-6616
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Australia
PB  - Australian Agricultural Economics Society
KW  - Africa
KW  - Appropriate technology
KW  - Asia
KW  - Economic analysis
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Fertilizer application
KW  - Innovation adoption
KW  - Technical progress
N1  - Peer review
N2  - Technical change in agriculture is examined for two contrasting situations in the developing world: the largely irrigated wheat-based systems of South Asia, where improved seed-fertiliser technology has been widely used for more than two decades, and rainfed maize-based systems of sub-Saharan Africa, where adoption of this technology remains incomplete. Zones of medium to high production potential and relative land scarcity are the primary focus of the analysis. Experience with the adoption of seed-fertiliser technology in these areas helps to identify the key changes in institutions and policies needed to foster continuing growth in food grain production by small-scale farmers, especially changes in research and extension strategies and in input supply policies
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12665/1170
T2  - Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics
DO  - http://dx.doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.9585
ER  -