Heterogeneity in male and female farmers’ preference for a profit‐enhancing and labor‐saving technology: The case of Direct‐Seeded Rice (DSR) in India

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorIndian Council of Agricultural Researchen
cg.coverage.countryIndia
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2IN
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierMd Tajuddin Khan: 0000-0003-4490-6974
cg.creator.identifierPramod Kumar Joshi: 0000-0002-9637-1767
cg.creator.identifier0000-0003-4797-2563
cg.creator.identifierAvinash Kishore: 0000-0003-4625-4922
cg.edition67(3)en
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12205en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - South Asia Region
cg.identifier.publicationRankC
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn1744-7976en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalCanadian Journal of Agricultural Economicsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ccafsPRIORITIES AND POLICIES FOR CSAen
cg.subject.ccafsGENDER AND SOCIAL INCLUSIONen
cg.volume67en
dc.contributor.authorJoshi, Pramod K.en
dc.contributor.authorKhan, Mohammed Tajuddinen
dc.contributor.authorKishore, Avinashen
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-13T14:43:11Zen
dc.date.available2019-09-13T14:43:11Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/103635
dc.titleHeterogeneity in male and female farmers’ preference for a profit‐enhancing and labor‐saving technology: The case of Direct‐Seeded Rice (DSR) in Indiaen
dcterms.abstractLabor‐saving and income‐increasing technologies may affect women farmers differently from men. However, very few studies explicitly account for women's preferences for new technologies. We carried out a discrete choice experiment with 337 female and 329 male farmers in Maharashtra, India, to measure their willingness to pay (WTP) for direct‐seeded rice (DSR) with drum seeder and to understand the gender differences in marginal valuations of key attributes. We used the Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (WEAI) to collect self‐reported data on the role and say of women in different domains of decision making. The respective gender roles of women and men in the family and on the farm are aligned with their preferences. Men have a greater say over how the family spends the cash. Accordingly, men tend to have a higher WTP for attributes that increase income (increase in yield) or reduce cash costs (reduction in seed rate). Women contribute a large share of the labor for transplanting rice, much of which is unpaid work on family farms. Women, therefore, seem to value labor saving more. Women in our sample were more interested in the new technology and had a higher WTP for it.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.available2019-09-04
dcterms.bibliographicCitationJoshi PK, Khan MT, Avinash K. 2019. Heterogeneity in male and female farmers’ preference for a profit‐enhancing and labor‐saving technology: The case of Direct‐Seeded Rice (DSR) in India. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 67(3):303-320.en
dcterms.extent303-320en
dcterms.issued2019-09
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseAll rights reserved; no re-use allowed
dcterms.publisherWileyen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/77341en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/6838en
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectriceen
dcterms.subjectwillingness to payen
dcterms.subjectrole of womenen
dcterms.subjecttechnology adoptionen
dcterms.subjectdirect sowingen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjecttechnologyen
dcterms.subjectempowermenten
dcterms.subjectexperimental designen
dcterms.subjectprofiten
dcterms.subjectwomenen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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