ArticleFood policy2019
What drives smallholder farmers' willingness to pay for a new farm technology? Evidence from an experimental auction in Kenya.
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- Assessing the impact of farmers' willingness to pay on different cultivated land attribute levels in China: an empirical analysis using the choice experiment method.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Risk Perception, Risk Preference, and Timing of Food Sales: New Insights into Farmers' Negativity in China.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Estimating seed demand in the presence of market frictions: Evidence from an auction experiment in Nigeria.Journal of development economics · 2024Article
- How Capital Endowment and Ecological Cognition Affect Environment-Friendly Technology Adoption: A Case of Apple Farmers of Shandong Province, China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Improved storage mitigates vulnerability to food-supply shocks in smallholder agriculture during the COVID-19 pandemic.Global food security · 2021Article
- Understanding the determinants of climate change adaptation strategies among smallholder maize farmers in South-west, Nigeria.Heliyon · 2021Article
- Willingness to Pay for Hexanal Technology among Banana Farmers in Meru County, Kenya.International journal of food science · 2021Article
- The use and profitability of hermetic technologies for grain storage among smallholder farmers in eastern Kenya.Journal of stored products research · 2020Article
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Abstract
We use an incentive compatible experimental auction to measure demand for a new agricultural technology, a triple layered hermetic storage bag. When used properly, the bag creates an airtight seal that reduces storage loss from insect pests and neutralizes aflatoxin contamination in stored grain. We find that demand for this new technology is highly elastic (4.3) and that the wholesaler could increase profit by lowering the price. We also find that farmers' valuation for the bag is not significantly different based on the medium through which information about it is communicated to them, either text, audio or video messages. This suggests that practitioners should use the cheapest option for disseminating information, which is text messaging in this context. In addition, we find that farmers who have prior awareness of the bag are willing to pay 20% more on average than those previously unaware of it. In total, the highly elastic demand for the improved bags, along with the fact that prior awareness of the bag leads to higher willingness to pay, suggests that a one-time price subsidy for the new technology could spur demand and increase future adoption.
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