TY  - BOOK
AU  - Otsuka,Keijiro
AU  - Kalirajan,K.P.
TI  - Agriculture in developing countries: technology issues 
SN  - 9788132100256
AV  - S494.5.I5 A3263 2008eb
U1  - 630.91724 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi, India, Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Agricultural innovations
KW  - Developing countries
KW  - Sustainable agriculture
KW  - Farmers
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Research
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Agronomy
KW  - Crop Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Technology issues in developing countries' agriculture / Keijiro Otsuka and Kaliappa Kalirajan -- Economic assessment of an indigenous technology in Bangladesh / Md Abdus Samad Azad and Mahabub Hossain -- Research investment on technology development in peninsular India / G.S. Ananth, P.G. Chengappa and Aldas Janaiah -- Impact of forage options for beef production on small farms in China / N.D. Macleod, S. Wen, and M. Hu -- Optimal land-use with carbon payments and fertilizer subsidies in Indonesia / Russell M. Wise and Oscar J. Cacho -- Deterioration of tank irrigation systems and poverty in India / Kei Kajisa -- Agricultural technology and children's occupational choice in the Philippines / Keijiro Ostsuka, Jonna P. Estudillo and Yasuyuki Sawada -- A panel data model for the assessment of farmer field schools in Thailand / Suwanna Praneetvatakul, Hermann Waibel; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - Technology Issues presents an experimental approach of testing new possibilities and combinations to match the changes taking place in the agricultural production environment of developing countries. While emphasizing the importance of combining scientific and indigenous knowledge, this book argues that sustained agricultural development can be achieved only by promoting farmers' participation in technology development. It provides empirical evidence for this, using recent primary data from across Asia
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