You have got to be kidding : the case of adoption of the kid planter in Cambodia /
Cambodia is an agrarian country with 80% of the population living in rural areas where they mainly rely on agricultural production, especially rice, for their livelihoods. As in many developing countries, agriculture is increasingly being mechanised in Cambodia in response to labour shortages. In Ca...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
SAGE Publications: SAGE Business Cases Originals,
2023.
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| Series: | SAGE business cases.
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| Summary: | Cambodia is an agrarian country with 80% of the population living in rural areas where they mainly rely on agricultural production, especially rice, for their livelihoods. As in many developing countries, agriculture is increasingly being mechanised in Cambodia in response to labour shortages. In Cambodia, whereas more than 95% of rice is harvested by combine harvesters, most rice is still sown by hand, which often results in significant losses due to drought, birds, and rats. Beginning in 2017, there was some adoption of a Thai Kid planter implement, which dramatically improved rice seeding practices, leading to more reliable harvests and higher quality rice. However, from 2021 there was dis-adoption of this technology due to the end of a machinery purchase subsidy scheme. This dis-adoption trend also coincided with increased use of mechanised broadcasting (scattering seed on the soil), which is much quicker than sowing by hand but produced similar crop losses. This broadcasting practice becomes a challenge for smallholder farmers (generally farmers with less than 2 ha of landholding) as the adoption of this new mechanised broadcasting technique does not improve production and leads to unreliable harvests. What are the barriers to adoption of technologies such as the Kid planter by Cambodia's smallholder farmers and how do we understand this in terms of innovation theory? Students will be asked to evaluate if such mechanised innovations should be encouraged and, if so, discuss how barriers to uptake should be assessed and addressed in view of various perspectives and interests of service providers, policymakers, development organisations, and smallholder farmers. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781529620436 1529620430 |