@techreport{icrisat9092,
         address = {Tokyo},
           month = {March},
            year = {2015},
           title = {An Empirical Analysis of Expanding Rice Production in Sub-Sahara Africa, The Impact of Training on Technology Adoption and Productivity of Rice Farming in Tanzania: Is Farmer-to-Farmer Extension Effective},
     institution = {Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute},
          series = {JICA RI Working Paper},
          number = {No. 90},
          author = {Y Nakano and T W Tsusaka and T Aida and V O Pede},
       publisher = {JICA Research Institute},
            type = {Working Paper},
             url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/9092/},
        abstract = {How far can new technologies taught to a small number of selected farmers diffuse to other farmers in a village? In order to answer this question, this paper investigates the impact of JICA training on the adoption of rice cultivation technologies and productivity in an irrigation scheme in Tanzania. By using a unique five-year panel data set and spatial econometric techniques, we found that non-trained farmers learned new technologies from trained farmers through social networks and by observing their plots. As a result, the paddy yield of directly trained farmers increased from 3.1 tons per hectare in 2008 to 4.7 tons per hectare in 2012, while that of non-trained farmers increased from around 2.6 tons per hectare in 2008 to 3.7 tons per hectare in 2012.},
        keywords = {Technology adoption, Agricultural training, Social learning, Rice, Sub-Saharan Africa}
}