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Slash-and-burn cultivation practice and agricultural input demand and output supply

Abdulai, Awudu
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Binder, Claudia R.  
2006
Environment and Development Economics

This study uses an endogenous switching-regression model to examine the impact of slash-and-burn cultivation practice on the application of commercial fertilizer and pesticides, as well as yields and net returns. The empirical evidence of the study indicates that cross-section analysis of the impact of technology adoption on input demand and output supply should take into consideration sample selection, and also examine the impact separately for adopters and non-adopters. The results show that education, access to credit, land rights, and visits by extension agents reduce the probability of farmers adopting slash-and-burn farm practices. Environmental variables, such as soil quality and plot slope, do not impact on the adoption decision, but affect output supply of both adopters and non-adopters of slash-and-burn technology.

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DOI
10.1017/S1355770X05002779
Author(s)
Abdulai, Awudu
Binder, Claudia R.  
Date Issued

2006

Published in
Environment and Development Economics
Volume

11

Issue

02

Start page

201

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

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HERUS  
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