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rev_number: 10
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datestamp: 2015-10-27 04:01:06
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type: monograph
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Nakano, Y
creators_name: Tsusaka, T W
creators_name: Aida, T
creators_name: Pede, V O
icrisatcreators_name: Tsusaka, T W
affiliation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba (Tsukuba)
affiliation: ICRISAT(Lilongwe)
affiliation: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
affiliation: International Rice Research Institute
country: Japan
country: Malawi
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
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.4
divisions: D6
crps: crp1.14
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: working_paper
keywords: Technology adoption, Agricultural training, Social learning, Rice, Sub-Saharan Africa
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.
date: 2015-03
date_type: published
series: JICA RI Working Paper
publisher: JICA Research Institute
place_of_pub: Tokyo
pages: 38
id_number: No. 90
institution: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) Research Institute
related_url_url: https://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&q=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%3A+Is+Farmer-to-Farmer+Extension+Effective%3F&b
related_url_type: pub
citation:   Nakano, Y and Tsusaka, T W and Aida, T and Pede, V O  (2015) 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.  Working Paper. JICA Research Institute, Tokyo.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/9092/1/JICA-RI_WP_No.90.pdf