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Bridging the Information Gap with Cost-Effective DisseminationStrategies: The Case of Integrated Pest Management inBangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2015

Leah M. Harris ,
George W. Norton ,
A.N.M. Rezaul Karim ,
Jeffrey Alwang  and
Daniel B. Taylor
Leah M. Harris
Affiliation:
Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
George W. Norton
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. A.N.M. Rezaul Karim is a former IPM CRSP Country Coordinator, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Joydebpur, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh
A.N.M. Rezaul Karim
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. A.N.M. Rezaul Karim is a former IPM CRSP Country Coordinator, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Joydebpur, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh
Jeffrey Alwang
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. A.N.M. Rezaul Karim is a former IPM CRSP Country Coordinator, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Joydebpur, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh
Daniel B. Taylor
Affiliation:
Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. A.N.M. Rezaul Karim is a former IPM CRSP Country Coordinator, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Joydebpur, Gazipur 1701, Bangladesh
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Abstract

Cost-effective extension strategies are needed to promote widespreadadoption of agricultural technologies in developing countries. Integratedpest management (IPM) practices, for example, can offer economic, health,and environmental benefits but remain largely underused. This studyevaluates the current IPM dissemination program implemented by theBangladesh Department of Agricultural Extension and uses a linearprogramming model to examine alternative strategies to improve IPM adoption.Results suggest that technology transfer programs may increase their impactby reallocating funding from intensive but costly interpersonalcommunication methods (i.e., farmer field schools) to less intensive methods(i.e., mass media and field days) that reach broader audiences.

Keywords

agricultural technologiescost-effectivenessdisseminationextensionIPMlinear programmingD83Q16
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , November 2013 , pp. 639 - 654
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 2013

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