VARIETY CHARACTERISTICS, TRANSACTIONS COSTS AND MAIZE ADOPTION IN HONDURAS

Hernando Hintze, Mitch Renkow and Gustavo Sain

No 19809, 2002 Annual meeting, July 28-31, Long Beach, CA from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: This paper summarizes research into the factors contributing to these low levels of adoption of improved maize varieties in Honduras. Empirical results indicate that transactions costs and production characteristics are important explanators of variety choice, consumption characteristics are not, and information deficits are an important limiting factor to HYV adoption.

Keywords: Crop; Production/Industries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.19809

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