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Adoption of new technology on small farms: the role of credit and its requirements

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Title Adoption of new technology on small farms: the role of credit and its requirements
 
Creator Subrahmanyam, K V
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The role of credit in helping small farmers in the adoption of high-yielding varieties (HYVs) of paddy in West Godavari district, Andhra Pradesh, was examined and their credit requirements were assessed. Using linear programming and data pertaining to a sample of 40 small farms below 2 ha. drawn from eight homogeneous stratified zones of West Godavari district, optimum farm plans were developed in limited capital and unlimited borrowed capital situations with the HYVs of paddy introduced as the processes in the matrix. The provision of credit helped in most of the cases in bringing the HYVs into the optimum plans on small farms but this was subject to the availability of suitable technology (varieties) to suit the agro-climatic regions and other necessary inputs like irrigation. The provision of additional capital resulted in increasing the area of HYVs of paddy on farms where it was already grown
 
Publisher Indian Society of Agricultural Economics
 
Date 1975
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7432/1/IJAE_30_3_181-185_1975.pdf
Subrahmanyam, K V (1975) Adoption of new technology on small farms: the role of credit and its requirements. Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, 30 (3). pp. 181-185. ISSN 0019-5014