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dc.contributor.authorPolson, R.
dc.contributor.authorSpencer, D.
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-04T11:27:37Z
dc.date.available2019-12-04T11:27:37Z
dc.date.issued1991
dc.identifier.citationPolson, R. & Spencer, D. (1991).The technology adoption process in subsistence agriculture: the case of cassava in southwestern Nigeria. Agricultural Systems, 36(1), 65-78.
dc.identifier.issn0308-521X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/4976
dc.description.abstractThe adoption decisions of subsistence multicrop producers regarding improved cassava variety (TMS 30572) in the humid tropical rainforest ecology of Southwestern Nigeria were analysed within a qualitative choice framework. The empirical results revealed that younger farmers producing marketable surpluses on holdings in excess of the mean farm size of 0·6 ha exhibited higher propensities of adopting TMS 30572 compared with farmers producing primarily for household consumption. The activities of extension agents among subsistence producers were statistically significant in the technology adoption process. Migrant farmers were identified as early adopters by the empirical model. These results have significant implications for extension personnel, research scientists and policymakers, and provide further justification for strengthening the extension capacities of the national research programs within the cassava belt of the humid forest ecologies of West and Central Africa.
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectFarmers
dc.subjectCassava
dc.subjectHumid Tropics
dc.subjectEcology
dc.subjectSocioeconomic Development
dc.titleThe technology adoption process in subsistence agriculture: the case of cassava in southwestern Nigeria
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionPeer Review
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centre
cg.iitasubjectSocioeconomy
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.iitasubjectFood Security
cg.iitasubjectCassava
cg.iitasubjectMeteorology And Climatology
cg.accessibilitystatusLimited Access
local.dspaceid102239
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/0308-521X(91)90108-M


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