Understanding adoption, non-adoption, and discontinuance of biological control in rice fields of northern Iran

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• 作者：Gholamhossein Abdollahzadeh^a ; ^{abdollahzade1@gmail.com} ; Christos A. Damalas^b ; ^{chris.damalas@yahoo.gr} ; ^{cdamalas@agro.duth.gr} ; Mohammad Sharif Sharifzadeh^a
• 关键词：Adoption ; Behavior ; IPM ; Post-adoption ; Technology attributes
• 刊名：Crop Protection
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：93
• 期：Complete
• 页码：60-68
• 全文大小：665 K
• 卷排序：93

文摘

Adoption, non-adoption, and discontinuance of biological control use were studied. A significant proportion of the Iranian rice farmers did not adopt biological control. Most early adopters dropped it soon after adoption and turned back to pesticide use. Biological control usefulness and ease of use should be pointed out to the farmers. Technical support and effective incentives should be provided to the farmers.