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Adoption of Technology Upgrading by Rural Smallholders in the Nepalese Coffee Sector

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  • Kattel, Rishi Ram

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Management, Faculty of Agriculture, Agriculture and Forestry University, Nepal)

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The ecological settings in the Himalayan hills provide a unique opportunity to the resource-poor farmers in Nepal to sell their organically produced coffee as specialty coffee in the global market. However, there is little research about the cultivation methods and adoption of profitable technological upgrading in coffee cultivation in the country. Against such a back drop, this paper seeks to explore the factors that influence the small-scale coffee farmers’ decision to adopt technological upgrading such as wet processing in the farming process. Semi-structured interviews as well as focus group discussions were conducted in selected coffee-growing rural regions of Nepal. The cost-benefit analysis of different modes of coffee processing shows that the adoption of wet processing has a large potential of increasing the profit margins of farmers. Results from an adoption model identify education, book keeping on coffee activities, training, and access to credit and household location as the key determining factors for the adoption of technology upgrading.

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  • Kattel, Rishi Ram, 2015. "Adoption of Technology Upgrading by Rural Smallholders in the Nepalese Coffee Sector," Sukkur IBA Journal of Management and Business, Sukkur IBA University, vol. 2(2), pages 1-17, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:ibajmb:0014
    DOI: 10.30537/sijmb.v2i2.91
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    1. Kattel, R.R. & Regmi, P.P. & Sharma, M.D. & Thapa, Y.B., 2020. "Factors affecting adoption of improved method in large cardamom curing and drying and its impact on household income in the Eastern Himalayan road-corridor of Nepal," Technology in Society, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).

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    Keywords

    Adoption model; cost-benefit analysis; upgrading; smallholder; coffee; Nepal;
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    JEL classification:

    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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