TY - JOUR
T1 - Technology and farm performance: paths of productive efficiences over time
AU - Kalirajan, Kaliappa
AU - Shand, Rick
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - The focus of this paper is the process of adjustment of farm performance to disequilibrium with new technology over time, which has been a subject of speculation till now. It shows that, left to learn from their own experience, farmers will be slow to realise the full technical potential of a new technology. Drawing on theories of intra-firm diffusion, the hypotheses tested in this paper using data from India are: (1) initial overall farm performances are characterised by modest and widely varying technical and allocative efficiencies, and (2) over time, average efficiencies rise.
AB - The focus of this paper is the process of adjustment of farm performance to disequilibrium with new technology over time, which has been a subject of speculation till now. It shows that, left to learn from their own experience, farmers will be slow to realise the full technical potential of a new technology. Drawing on theories of intra-firm diffusion, the hypotheses tested in this paper using data from India are: (1) initial overall farm performances are characterised by modest and widely varying technical and allocative efficiencies, and (2) over time, average efficiencies rise.
U2 - 10.1016/S0169-5150(00)00077-3
DO - 10.1016/S0169-5150(00)00077-3
M3 - Article
VL - 24
SP - 297
EP - 306
JO - Agricultural Economics
JF - Agricultural Economics
ER -