IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea87/270133.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

On the Economics of Adaptive Research in Developing Country Agriculture

Author

Listed:
  • Byerlee, Derek
  • Heisey, Paul

Abstract

No abstract is available for this item.

Suggested Citation

  • Byerlee, Derek & Heisey, Paul, 1987. "On the Economics of Adaptive Research in Developing Country Agriculture," 1987 Annual Meeting, August 2-5, East Lansing, Michigan 270133, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:aaea87:270133
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270133
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/270133/files/aaea-1987-143.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/270133/files/aaea-1987-143.pdf?subformat=pdfa
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.22004/ag.econ.270133?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gershon Feder & Roger Slade, 1984. "The Acquisition of Information and the Adoption of New Technology," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 66(3), pages 312-320.
    2. L. Dean Hiebert, 1974. "Risk, Learning, and the Adoption of Fertilizer Responsive Seed Varieties," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 56(4), pages 764-768.
    3. Joseph Havlicek & James A. Seagraves, 1962. "The "Cost of the Wrong Decision" as a Guide in Production Research," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 44(1), pages 157-168.
    4. John P. Doll, 1972. "A Comparison of Annual Versus Average Optima for Fertilizer Experiments," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 54(2), pages 226-233.
    5. Richard K. Perrin, 1976. "The Value of Information and the Value of Theoretical Models in Crop Response Research," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 58(1), pages 54-61.
    6. Wallace E. Huffman, 1977. "Allocative Efficiency: The Role of Human Capital," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 91(1), pages 59-79.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Derek Byerlee, 1993. "Technical Change and Returns to Wheat Breeding Research in Pakistan's Punjab in the Post-Green Revolution Period," The Pakistan Development Review, Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, vol. 32(1), pages 69-86.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Margarita Genius & Christos Pantzios & Vangelis Tzouvelekas, 2003. "Information Acquisition and Adoption of Organic Farming Practices: Evidence from Farm Operations in Crete, Greece," Working Papers 0305, University of Crete, Department of Economics.
    2. Spiro E. Stefanou, 1987. "Technical Change, Uncertainty, and Investment," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 69(1), pages 158-165.
    3. Liu, Jean & Chen, Kevin & Shi, Minjun, 2004. "Access to Information and the Adoption of Hybrid Maize: Evidence from China's Poor Areas," Japanese Journal of Agricultural Economics (formerly Japanese Journal of Rural Economics), Agricultural Economics Society of Japan (AESJ), vol. 6, pages 1-7.
    4. Montgomery, John M. & Griffin, Ronald C. & Dahm, Fred P., 1986. "Comparing Random Profit From 'Optimal' Input Recommendations," 1986 Annual Meeting, July 27-30, Reno, Nevada 278077, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    5. El-Osta, Hisham S. & Morehart, Mitchell J., 1999. "Technology Adoption Decisions In Dairy Production And The Role Of Herd Expansion," Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association, vol. 28(1), pages 1-12, April.
    6. Faruque-As-Sunny & Zuhui Huang & Taonarufaro Tinaye Pemberai Karimanzira, 2018. "Investigating Key Factors Influencing Farming Decisions Based on Soil Testing and Fertilizer Recommendation Facilities (STFRF)—A Case Study on Rural Bangladesh," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(11), pages 1-24, November.
    7. Aritri Chakravarty, 2022. "Impact of Information on Technical Efficiency of Agricultural Production in India," BASE University Working Papers 14/2022, BASE University, Bengaluru, India.
    8. Hall, Harry H., 1998. "Choosing an Empirical Production Function: Theory, Nonnested Hypotheses, Costs of Specifications," Agricultural Economics Research Reports 31977, University of Kentucky, Department of Agricultural Economics.
    9. Enid Katungi & Svetlana Edmeades & Melinda Smale, 2008. "Gender, social capital and information exchange in rural Uganda," Journal of International Development, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(1), pages 35-52.
    10. Nicholas M. Gotts & J. Gareth Polhill, 2009. "When and How to Imitate Your Neighbours: Lessons from and for FEARLUS," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 12(3), pages 1-2.
    11. Chen, Zhuo & Eastwood, David B. & Yen, Steven T., 2005. "Childhood Malnutrition In China: Change Of Inequality In A Decade," 2005 Annual meeting, July 24-27, Providence, RI 19205, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).
    12. Tao Yang, Dennis, 2004. "Education and allocative efficiency: household income growth during rural reforms in China," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 74(1), pages 137-162, June.
    13. Hui Luo & Zhaomin Hu & Xiuping Hao & Nawab Khan & Xiaojie Liu, 2022. "Assessment and Comparison of Agricultural Technology Development under Different Farmland Management Modes: A Case Study of Grain Production, China," Land, MDPI, vol. 11(11), pages 1-24, October.
    14. Kennedy, John O.S., 1986. "Rules For Optimal Fertilizer Carryover: An Alternative Explanation," Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 54(02), pages 1-8, August.
    15. Langyintuo, Augustine S. & Mungoma, Catherine, 2008. "The effect of household wealth on the adoption of improved maize varieties in Zambia," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 33(6), pages 550-559, December.
    16. Queiroz, Pedro W. V. & Perrin, Richard K. & Fulginiti, Lilyan E. & Bullock, David S., 2023. "An Expected Value of Sample Information (EVSI) Approach for Estimating the Payoff from a Variable Rate Technology," Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Western Agricultural Economics Association, vol. 48(1), January.
    17. Derek Byerlee & Klaus Deininger, 2013. "The Rise of Large Farms in Land-Abundant Countries: Do They Have a Future?," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Stein T. Holden & Keijiro Otsuka & Klaus Deininger (ed.), Land Tenure Reform in Asia and Africa, chapter 14, pages 333-353, Palgrave Macmillan.
    18. Anjani Kumar & Ashok K. Mishra & Sunil Saroj & Vinay K. Sonkar & Ganesh Thapa & Pramod K. Joshi, 2020. "Food safety measures and food security of smallholder dairy farmers: Empirical evidence from Bihar, India," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 36(3), pages 363-384, June.
    19. Kim, Seon-Ae & Westra, John V. & Gillespie, Jeffrey M., 2006. "Factors Influencing the Adoption of Russian Varroa-Resistant Honey Bees," 2006 Annual Meeting, February 5-8, 2006, Orlando, Florida 35311, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    20. Hildreth, R.J. & Bentley, Orville G. & Johnson, Glenn L. & Tweeten, Luther & Mellor, John W. & Bromley, Daniel W. & Pope, Rulon D. & Leman, Christopher K. & Paarlberg, Robert L. & King, R.P. & Sonka, , 1985. "Agriculture and Rural Areas Approaching the Twenty-first Century: Challenges for Agricultural Economics," 1985 Annual Meeting, August 4-7, Ames, Iowa 278707, American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ags:aaea87:270133. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: AgEcon Search (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.aaea.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.