Analysis of Demands for Farming Technologies and Appropriate Transfer Methods of Rice Farmers in Ibague, Tolima, Colombia

• Khoy Rada

  Laboratory of Agricultural and Farm Management, Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University | Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences

• 南石 晃明

  九州大学大学院農学研究院農業資源経済学部門農業資源経済学 : 教授

• 長命 洋佑

  九州大学大学院農学研究院農業資源経済学部門 : 助教

• Blanco Ea Ximena

  Laboratory of Agricultural and Farm Management, Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University | Fedearroz–National Federation Rice, Colombia

• Marte Winston

  Laboratory of Agricultural and Farm Management, Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University | Dominican Republic Ministry of Agriculture

• Alwarritzi Widya

  Laboratory of Agricultural and Farm Management, Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University | Graduate School of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences

抄録

Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and other countries in the region lead to remove the import duties to Colombia on the vast majority of agricultural products, particularly for rice. This would affect the rice price, and reduce rice farmers’ income. Hence, Colombian rice farmers require improvement levels of efficiency to be competitive with the products from other countries. This study aims to determine the demands for farming technologies and appropriate transfer methods of rice farmers, and to identify the determinants of farmers’ demands for those technologies. Ibague was selected to be the study area. Data was collected through face–to–face interview in April 2015. 105 rice farmers were interviewed, but only 70 respondents were included for analysis. Descriptive analysis was used to determine the demands for technologies and transferring methods. Then we adopted multivariate regression to identify the relationship between farmers’ characteristics and component scores obtained from principal component analysis (PCA). The results suggested that farmers require technologies that could help minimizing their cost and water issue. In particular, farmers showed high interest in sowing calibration, laser land leveling, soil analysis interpretation, fertilization planning, biological pest control, pest recognition and monitoring, and proper selection of the varieties. The results indicated farmers prefer field day for technology transfer once a month on Friday. They require prior notification of invitation by email and phone call between 3 to 7 days before the events. Farmers believed that social network and radio are the crucial tools to promote the technology transfer event. The results of multivariate regression suggested that farmers’ preference of farming technologies is based upon their conditional characteristics and issues being faced. Hence, all technologies should be jointly innovated by the researchers and farmers.

収録刊行物

• Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University

  Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University 62 (1), 245-253, 2017-02-24

  九州大学大学院農学研究院

キーワード

• Colombia
• Demand of technologies
• Rice farming
• Rice
• Transfer methods

詳細情報

• CRID: 1390853649614846464
• NII論文ID: 120006024247
• NII書誌ID: AA00247166
• DOI: 10.5109/1801790
• HANDLE: 2324/1801790
• ISSN: 00236152
• 本文言語コード: en
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