relation: http://oar.icrisat.org/7349/
title: Adoption factors of the Targeted Staggered Control in Northern-Benin
creator: Kpade, P C
creator: Mensah, E R
subject: Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
description: This article analyzes the adoption factors of an alternative technology of cotton protection, called Targeted Staggered Control (TSC) and adoption intensity factors among cotton farms in Northern-Benin. Identified through Heckman two-stage procedure, institutional factors and the assessment of the quality of TSC-specific pesticide affect positively TSC adoption, while cotton specialization affects negatively this adoption. Scaling out TSC adoption does not simply depend on the availability of TSC-specific pesticide, but on the delivery of this TSC-specific pesticide at the right time and along with the institutional factors that contribute to the right use of the technology.
publisher: French Society of Rural Economy 
date: 2013
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://oar.icrisat.org/7349/1/EconomicRurale_338_77_91_2013.pdf
identifier:   Kpade, P C and Mensah, E R  (2013) Adoption factors of the Targeted Staggered Control in Northern-Benin.  Économie rurale, 338.  pp. 77-91.