Modelling Farmers Investment in Agrochemicals: The Experience of Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Ghana
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"Modelling Farmers Investment in Agr..." refers result in this paper
...This also confirms the previous studies by Nkamleu & Adesina (2000) and Asfaw & Admassie (2004)....
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...Farmers Education (FEDU) is found to correspond positively with agrochemical adoption (Nkamleu and Adesina 2000, Asfaw and Admasie 2004)....
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...Previous studies in Africa by Malton (1994); Nkamleu & Adesina (2000) reported that men are generally more likely to adopt new agricultural technologies than women....
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...This also confirms the previous studies by Nkamleu & Adesina (2000) and Asfaw & Admassie (2004)....
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...This also confirms the previous studies by Nkamleu & Adesina (2000) and Asfaw & Admassie (2004)....
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...Many studies (Nkamleuet al., 2007, Nkamleu & Tsafack 2007; Nkamleu, 2004; Holloway et al., 2004; Oladade, 2005; Degu et al., 2000)have used this procedure to study farmer’s decision to adopt technology packages....
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...This is quite not different from the results obtained by Nkamleuet al., (2007) who reported that Ivorian farmers are less likely to use agrochemicals on their older cocoa farms....
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...This supports the previous studies by Polson & Spencer (1991) and recent study by Nkamleuet al., (2007) who documented positive correlation between total area cultivated and adoption of agrochemicals....
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...A few recent examples include Silberberg and Suen (2001) and Nkamleuet al., (2007) and therefore the theoretical framework for modeling farmer’s investment in agrochemicals is similar to the one outlined....
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