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Pontius, Steven K. – 1980
This paper analyzes the amount of time required by farmers in four villages on the western edge of the central plain of Thailand to adopt four agricultural innovations--fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide. The general objective is to help researchers interested in the relationship of the adoption of new ideas to economic development…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agriculture, Area Studies, Attitude Change
Pontius, Steven K. – 1981
How market factors affected the diffusion of four agricultural inputs (fertilizer, herbicide, insecticide, and fungicide) among farmers on the Central Plain of Thailand is examined. Market factors investigated were the distribution policies of the propagators and the travel behavior of the potential adopters. Data were gathered through personal…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Agriculture, Developing Nations, Diffusion (Communication)
