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Site‐Specific Crop Management: Adoption Patterns and Incentives
Author(s) -
Khanna Madhu,
Epouhe Onesime Faustin,
Hornbaker Robert
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
applied economic perspectives and policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.4
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 2040-5804
pISSN - 2040-5790
DOI - 10.2307/1349891
Subject(s) - incentive , crop management , variety (cybernetics) , business , emerging technologies , crop , industrial organization , economics , natural resource economics , microeconomics , computer science , geography , forestry , artificial intelligence
This article examines the current level and likely trends in adoption of a variety of technologies for site‐specific crop management in four north‐central states. It also explores the extent to which farmers are jointly adopting multiple components. Technology adoption theories are applied to rationalize the observed selectivity in adoption. Farmer responses reveal that uncertainty in returns due to adoption, high costs of adoption, and lack of demonstrated effects of the advanced site‐specific technologies on yields and input‐use are some of the major reasons for current low rates of adoption and for the piecemeal approach to site‐specific crop management.