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Identifying Target Groups for Agricultural Research: The Categorization of Rice Farmers in the Dominican Republic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Frans Doorman
Frans Doorman
Affiliation:
Department of Rural Sociology of the Tropics and Subtropics, Agricultural University, Hollandsewes 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, Netherlands
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Summary

A method is discussed for classifying small scale rice farmers from the Dominican Republic who have similar production systems and access to land, but differ widely in the yields they obtain and in the adoption of new technology. The results are used to define two recommendation domains, for farmers with ‘good’ and ‘poor’ production conditions, and to suggest appropriate technology for each. For farmers working in good production conditions the development of a technological package based on the double cropping of semi-dwarf varieties with high yield potential and production efficiency is recommended; for farmers with poor production conditions, a technological package is suggested based on varieties with a high tolerance of drought, flooding and weed development, which yield adequately at low input levels.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 243 - 252
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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