Determinants of the intensity of adoption of nutri rich crop varieties by rural households
2021
Bishnoi, Sitaram | Satyapriya, | Sangeetha, V. | Lenin, V. | Krishnan, Murali | Mehra, Girijesh Singh | Sahu, Subhashree | Singh, R. P. | Padaria, R. N.
The bio fortified food crops, especially cereals, legumes, vegetables, and fruits, are providing sufficient levels of micronutrients to targeted populations. Besides the challenges bio fortified crops hold a bright future to address the malnutrition challenge The intensity of adoption is measured as the ratio of the area under cultivation for the new varieties to the total farm land cultivated. These analyses will help increase the understanding of the factors or variables that influence a household decision to increase the area under production of the varieties promoted by the project. The study was conducted in the Bagpat district of the Uttar Pradesh. The results of the Tobit analysis showed that the factors that influenced male-headed households’ intensity of adoption were household size, income, farm size, and access to credit. For female-headed households, household size, income, farm size, extension contact, and participation in associations significantly influenced the probability of intensity of adoption of nutri rich varieties promoted by the project. The estimated coefficient of household size was positive and significant at the 5 per cent level for both male-and female-headed households. These results show that, on average, male-and female-headed households who had larger households will increase the probability of intensifying their adoption of nutri rich varieties. This result makes sense as extension agents not only expose female-headed households to agri- nutri technologies promoted by project activities; they also do their best to convince households to adopt the technology.
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