私人投入品供应商作为农业技术采用的信息中介
Private Input Suppliers as Information Agents for Technology Adoption in Agriculture
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics · 2024 · [{"name": "Manzoor H. Dar", "affiliation": []}, {"name": "Alain de Janvry", "affiliation": ["University of California, Berkeley"]}, {"name": "Kyle Emerick", "affiliation": ["Tufts University"]}, {"name": "Élisabeth Sadoulet", "affiliation": ["University of California, Berkeley"]}, {"name": "Eleanor Wiseman", "affiliation": ["Center for Global Development", "King Center"]}]
中文摘要
信息摩擦限制了发展中国家新农业技术的采用。旨在改善信息传递的举措通常依靠政府推广人员向农民传播信息。我们发现，与这种政府主导方式相比，向印度的私人投入品供应商告知一种新品种种子的信息，可使农户层面的采用率提高50%以上。供应商在向潜在客户提供信息、并储备新品种方面变得更加主动。他们促使那些能从该技术中获得更高回报的农民提高了采用率。扩大销售所带来的激励最有可能是产生这些结果的动因。（JEL D83、L14、L33、O13、O32、Q12、Q16）
Abstract
Information frictions limit the adoption of new agricultural technologies in developing countries. Efforts to improve learning involve spreading information from government agents to farmers. We show that when compared to this government approach, informing private input suppliers in India about a new seed variety increases farmer-level adoption by over 50 percent. Suppliers become more proactive in informing potential customers and carrying the new variety. They induce increased adoption by those with higher returns from the technology. Being motivated by expanded sales offers the most likely motive for these results. (JEL D83, L14, L33, O13, O32, Q12, Q16)