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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | Water Saving Technology in Chinese Rice Production - Evidence from Survey Data
Autores: | Abdulai,   Awudu; Glauben,   Thomas; Herzfeld,   Thomas; Zhou,   Shudong.
Data: | 2005-10-06
Ano: | 2005
Palavras-chave: | China; Technology adoption; Water; GCRPS; Probit; Crop Production/Industries; O30; Q16.
Resumo: | Whereas water is an important input in rice production, China faces severe problems with increasing demand for water and limited water resources. In conventional paddy production, one of the most important irrigated crops, a significant amount of irrigation water is lost due to percolation and evaporation. Therefore, it exist a vivid research in water saving rice technologies. This paper analyzes the adoption of one of these water-saving rice production technologies, the so-called Ground Cover Rice Production System (GCRPS), in the Hubei province. Based on farm survey data several factors which affect the adoption decision could be identified. The adoption decision is treated as a binary choice problem and therefore a probit model is used for the econometric analysis. The main determinants of the adoption decision are the number of previous adoptions, the membership in an extension service and the income of the household. Additionally, soil characteristics show a significant impact on the probability of adoption.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

18090

http://purl.umn.edu/24708

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

European Association of Agricultural Economists&gt;2005 International Congress, August 23-27, 2005, Copenhagen, Denmark

Poster Paper

Formato:

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