An Investigating of the Determinants of Laser Land Leveling Adoption in Fars Province

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Determinants of the adoption of land leveling in Fars Province were investigated through an application of Logit Model to data collected from a sample of 300 farmers. The results revealed that area under cultivation, farmers' education, earnings beside-farm-income, access to credits, availability of laser applied land leveling instruments and equipments in the region, as well as dam water, as the source of irrigation water have positive effects on adoption of laser land leveling with the respective 4.3, 2.1, 1.4, 2, 62&47 percent marginal effect. Also, it is understood that the availability of laser land leveling equipments in the village is a main factor in adoption of the technique, and information diffusion of the technology motivating publicity from farmers themselves to other farmers.

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Iranian Journal of Agricultural Economics and Development Research
Volume 43, Issue 3 - Serial Number 3
October 2012
Pages 321-328

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