Factors affecting the adoption of zero tillage wheat in the rice-wheat systems of India and Pakistan.

摘要

Zero tillage planting of wheat after rice has been the main success in the quest for resource-conserving technologies that can save water, reduce production costs and improve production in the Indo-Gangetic Plains, the cereal bowl of South Asia. Binomial logit models are used to assess the structural factors associated with its adoption in the rice-wheat systems of India's Haryana state and Pakistan's Punjab province. Zero tillage adoption is closely associated with a more favourable resource base and rice-wheat specialization in both study areas. This calls for a closer consideration of equity implications in future research and development.