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| Pillarisetti, Satish; Mehrotra, Nirupam. |
| Indian agriculture is characterized by the predominance of smallholders. This paper seeks to examine the access of small holders to agriculture credit in the context of financial sector reforms in India in the nineties. It explores the role of institutional and non institutional agencies in extending agriculture credit to the smallholder and the ground realities as revealed by recent data sets. The nineties also saw the unfolding of the largest microfinance programme in the world in India. While this was very successful in bringing micro enterprises under the credit purview, it was unable to cater to the need for agriculture credit. This paper examines the reasons for this and suggests that newer kinds of institutional innovations in the Pilot stage like,... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Agriculture credit; Farm Size; Land Economics/Use; Q1; Q15. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/52858 |
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| Gedikoglu, Haluk. |
| For policies that promote use of new technologies by farmers to be successful, it is important that farmers continue to use these technologies. Technology disadoption has not been analyzed in the literature widely and there is no theoretical model that analyzes technology disadoption. The objective of the current study is to provide a theoretical framework that explains the impact of farm size and uncertainty with respect to production technology on farmers’ decision to disadopt a new technology. Current study found that a negative relationship between farm size and disadoption technologies that were complement to other technologies that are used by larger farms. Also, the current study predicted that larger farmers are more likely to disadopt a new... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Technology Disadoption; Farm Size; Uncertainty; Environmental Quality; Environmental Economics and Policy. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/56431 |
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