The package nature of new agricultural technology makes
the evaluation of its welfare effects quite difficult. Most of
the studies on the impact of agricultural technology on farm
incomes and poverty have usually relied on fairly macro approaches,
with very few analyses at the micro-level. Some of
the few household level studies include Morris (2002), Karanja
et al. (2003), Evenson and Gollin (2003), Mendola (2007) and
Mojo, Norton, Alwang, Rhinehart, and Deom (2007). Thus,
the literature appears to document overall positive impacts,
with far less evidence at the individual household level that
specifically show the effects of the adoption of agricultural
technologies on farm productivity and household welfare.
This is in contrast to the plethora of empirical work on factors
affecting the innovation adoption decisions of farm households.
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