Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India
Using information on varietal adoption of important cereal crops from a large-scale survey in India, this paper investigates “how social networks influence technology adoption behaviour of farm households.” Our key innovation is that unlike many other studies that consider village-level adoption rat...
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| author | Negi, Digvijay S. Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Birthal, Pratap Singh |
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| author_facet | Negi, Digvijay S. Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Birthal, Pratap Singh |
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| description | Using information on varietal adoption of important cereal crops from a large-scale survey in India, this paper investigates “how social networks influence technology adoption behaviour of farm households.” Our key innovation is that unlike many other studies that consider village-level adoption rates as a proxy for social networks, we identify a farm household's peer group based on caste and sources of information within a region. In the context of rural India, such networks are more relevant because of the historical evolution of the caste system based on similarities in the socio-cultural and occupational characteristics of households that provide greater stability and cohesiveness to the networks. Our findings show that the social networks of modern crop varieties’ adopters are stronger than those of their non-adopters. Further, it is found that the adoption of modern varieties is strongly influenced by social networks, but their influence varies across crops depending on the stage of varietal diffusion. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1434992025-12-02T21:02:52Z Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India Negi, Digvijay S. Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Birthal, Pratap Singh technology adoption social networks agricultural technology farmers cereals technology capacity development information cereal crops caste systems Using information on varietal adoption of important cereal crops from a large-scale survey in India, this paper investigates “how social networks influence technology adoption behaviour of farm households.” Our key innovation is that unlike many other studies that consider village-level adoption rates as a proxy for social networks, we identify a farm household's peer group based on caste and sources of information within a region. In the context of rural India, such networks are more relevant because of the historical evolution of the caste system based on similarities in the socio-cultural and occupational characteristics of households that provide greater stability and cohesiveness to the networks. Our findings show that the social networks of modern crop varieties’ adopters are stronger than those of their non-adopters. Further, it is found that the adoption of modern varieties is strongly influenced by social networks, but their influence varies across crops depending on the stage of varietal diffusion. 2020-02-01 2024-05-22T12:14:40Z 2024-05-22T12:14:40Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143499 en https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133206 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133226 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133227 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133598 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133518 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.134240 https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOEM-04-2020-0407 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Negi, Digvijay S.; Birthal, Pratap S.; Kumar, Anjani; and Tripathi, Gaurav. 2020. Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1918. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133684. |
| spellingShingle | technology adoption social networks agricultural technology farmers cereals technology capacity development information cereal crops caste systems Negi, Digvijay S. Kumar, Anjani Tripathi, Gaurav Birthal, Pratap Singh Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India |
| title | Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India |
| title_full | Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India |
| title_fullStr | Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India |
| title_full_unstemmed | Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India |
| title_short | Farmers’ social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in India |
| title_sort | farmers social networks and adoption of modern crop varieties in india |
| topic | technology adoption social networks agricultural technology farmers cereals technology capacity development information cereal crops caste systems |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143499 |
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