Dar, M H and Janvry, A and Emerick, K and Sadoulet, E and Wiseman, E (2024) Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 16 (2). pp. 219-248. ISSN 1945-7782
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Information frictions limit the adoption of new agricultural technologies in developing countries. Efforts to improve learning involve spreading information from government agents to farmers. We show that when compared to this government approach, informing private input suppliers in India about a new seed variety increases farmer-level adoption by over 50 percent. Suppliers become more proactive in informing potential customers and carrying the new variety. They induce increased adoption by those with higher returns from the technology. Being motivated by expanded sales offers the most likely motive for these results.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Divisions: | Research Program : Asia |
| CRP: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Technology Adoption, Agriculture, Privatization, Learning |
| Subjects: | Others > Agriculture |
| Depositing User: | Mr Nagaraju T |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2025 03:51 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2025 03:52 |
| URI: | http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/13013 |
| Official URL: | https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.202... |
| Projects: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Acknowledgement: | Author Manzoor H. Dar, presently working in International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics. |
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