Information flows are weaker in a heterogeneous population when the performance of a new technology is sensitive to unobserved individual characteristics, preventing individuals from learning from neighbors’ experiences. This characterization of social learning is tested with wheat and rice data from the Indian Green Revolution. The rice-growing regions display greater heterogeneity in growing ...

Making farm decisions is difficult, especially making decisions about selling and pricing wheat in deregulated supply chains. This study, conducted prior to export deregulation, sought to identify which factors were important to northern New South Wales (NSW) wheat growers when they were making decisions about wheat selling and price risk, under production and market uncertainty. Key questions ...

Spring application of post-emergence (POST) broadleaf herbicides in a urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as the carrier may provide winter wheat growers with a one-pass option for weed control and nitrogen application. Winter wheat tolerance to bromoxynil/MCPA, dichlorprop/2,4-D, thifensulfuron/tribenuron + MCPA amine or pyrasulfotole/bromoxynil applied using 28% UAN at various carrier volumes (0, 100...

Wheat is a major agricultural crop in the Sistan region with a key role in local economy. The present study aimed to economically explore the efficiency of wheat production over the 2014-2016 period with the window data envelopment analysis (WDEA) approach. Also, the Malmquist productivity index was employed to assess the productivity of wheat growers in the study site under variable return to ...

A farmer organization policy is studied through the case of Baja California Wheat Product System. The performance committee that represents it evaluated. There no research on these problems in northern Mexico, therefore imperative to document and publish knowledge generated for its understanding over time. With structured interviews construction Problem Trees, causes effects were determined mea...

this research used a survey method to investigate wheat growers’ beliefs and perceptions regarding the use of weather information in farming decisions in fars province. a multi-stratified random sample with six strata was used to collect data. the sample consisted of 314 wheat growers divided into six strata based on their climatic zones. the data collection instrument was a questionnaire the v...

This paper focuses on the amount of diesel consumption as one of the non-renewable energy sources consumed by the agricultural machinery and water pumps in wheat and corn farms in Dire County,Kermanshah Province, Iran. The population of the study was determined by Bartlett table. Stratified random sampling method and census was used for the selection of respondents. The sample was composed of 2...

the locus of control is a construct reflecting beliefs about the control of behavior and life events. according to this perception, people are grouped into two main categories: an internal and external locus of control. the main purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between wheat yield performance, locus of control and wheat growers’ (wg) characteristics. survey research met...