Technology Adoption on Vegetable Agroforestry System in Nanggung

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Technology Adoption on Vegetable Agroforestry
System in Nanggung
Agroforestry and Sustainable Vegetables
Production in Southeast Asian Watershed

• Monitoring Study Impact Study Design

• Suseno Arief
• World Agroforestry Centre ICRAF
• Southeast Asia Regional Office
• Bogor, Indonesia

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Objectives

• Identify vegetable cultivation technology on
  agroforestry system that socially acceptable,
  economically feasible, and affordable
• Provide information on the level adoption of
  vegetable cultivation technology in agroforestry
  system
• Assess impacts of technology adoption on incomes
  farmers

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Expected Outputs

• Provide data of technology adoption level as a
  part of socio-economic impact assessment of
  integrated vegetable agroforestry system
• Research Report

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Scope of the study

• Technology
• Drip Irrigation technology
• Shade Management
• Impact
• Farmers income

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Target group

• Alternatives
• Participants of the Baseline Study 2006
• Farmers who apply the technology on their land

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Methodology

• Data
• Data Collection
• Timeline

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Methodology-Data

• Research Question
• Do farmers know about the technology?
• Perceptions
• Dissemination process
• Involvement
• Supporting weakening factors to apply the
  technology

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Methodology-Data

• Research Question
• What kind of technology are socially acceptable,
  economically feasible and affordable?
• Type of technology
• Treatments
• Level of input
• Yield

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Methodology-Data

• Research Question
• Which farmers apply the technology?
• Socio-economic strata (landholding, position in
  community)
• Income sources, level (before and after)

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Methodology-Data

• Research Question
• Where they apply the technology?
• Vegetable cultivated
• Physical characteristics (irrigation, slope etc)
• Accessibility (distance from trial plot)

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Methodology-Data

• Research Question
• Do the applied technology affects farmers
  income? How?
• Income from vegetable cultivation
• Income from labor saving

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Methodology-Data Collecting

• Farmers Level
• Interviews
• Observation to the farmers plot
• Trial Plots
• Observations
• Secondary data collecting

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Timeline

• Monitoring Study
• Preparation June-July 2007
• Data Collecting July-Dec 2007
• Writing Report Dec 2007-Jan 2008
• Impact Study
• 2008