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Conditions for the Diffusion of Agricultural Technology: An Asian Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2010

Yujiro Hayami
Yujiro Hayami
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Tokyo Metropolitan University
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A unique aspect of agricultural production as a biological process is that it is basically conditioned by natural environments. Agricultural technology is so developed as to be efficient in the given environmental conditions in addition to being consistent with relative factor and product prices. In consequence, there is a tendency for agricultural technology to become location-specific, and its direct transfer is limited within a small area of similar environmental conditions.

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Papers Presented at the Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , March 1974 , pp. 131 - 148
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1974

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The study on which this paper is based was, in part, supported by a grant of the Rockefeller Foundation to the University of Minnesota Economic Development Center.

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