Impact of Technology Change on Productivity Difference between Tissue Culture and Non-Tissue Culture Pointed Gourd in Gujarat
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Author: Alvira Rajwadi and R.S. Pundir
Author Address: Research Scholar (Agricultural Economics), B. A. College of Agriculture, Anand Agricultural University, Anand-388 110 (Gujarat) and (I/C) Principal and Dean, International Agribusiness Management Institute, Anand Agricultural 2 University, Anand-388 110 (
Keywords: Decomposition, non-tissue-culture, pointed gourd, tissue-culture.
JEL Codes: C01, C19, C83.
Abstract
This
paper attempted an economic analysis of tissue-culture-pointed and
non-tissue-culture-pointed gourd apart from studying the constraints the
tissue-culture growing farmers faced. The coefficient of determination (R ) was
0.629 and 0.56 for the estimated 2 functions
of tissue-culture, and non-tissue-culture technology, respectively. It revealed
that the contribution of technological change (tissue-culture technology) to
the total per hectare output was 26.41 per cent. The contribution of the
neutral technological (shift in values of scale parameters) component in the
productivity difference was positive (56.39 per cent). In contrast, the
nonneutral technological (change in values of parameters) component contributed
negatively (-29.98 per cent) to the total difference in the output. Age had a
negative and significant impact, while family size had a positive and
significant effect on adopting tissueculture technology. The analysis revealed
that the tissue-culture technology in pointed gourd cultivation could
significantly enhance the farmers' income.
Description
Indian Journal of Economics and Development
Volume 18 No. 3, 2022, 721-727
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35716/IJED/21304
NAAS Score: 5.15 (2022)
Indexed in Clarivate Analytics (ESCI) of WoS
Indexed in Scopus (SJR: 0.18)
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