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- Title
AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AND NONFARM EARNINGS IN UGANDA: A SEMIPARAMETRIC ANALYSIS.
- Authors
Diiro, Gracious M.; Sam, Abdoul G.
- Abstract
Household diversification into nonfarm work activities is a major rural livelihood strategy in many developing economies. In this paper, we explore empirically if rural households in Uganda leverage their nonfarm earnings to overcome credit constraints and invest in high yielding maize seed varieties. We use a semiparametric estimator of binary outcomes that accommodates endogenous regressors straightforwardly to estimate the effect of nonfarm income on technology adoption decisions. Our results show that nonfarm income has a positive and significant effect on the adoption of improved maize seed.
- Subjects
UGANDA; AGRICULTURE; RURAL conditions; EARNED income; CORN varieties; CORN seeds; AGRICULTURAL innovations; INNOVATION adoption
- Publication
Journal of Developing Areas, 2015, Vol 49, Issue 2, p145
- ISSN
0022-037X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/jda.2015.0013