Despite demonstrated environmental and economic benefits, the adoption of Conservation Agriculture (CA) still remains low across smallholder agricultural communities. Adoption of a complex and composite technology such as CAPS (Conservation Agriculture Production System) requires a thorough understanding of site-specific determinants and constraints in the adoption process. In this paper, an Economic Assessment of adoption of CA practices was conducted including: minimum tillage and inter cropping among farmers in the North Central Plateau Zone of Odisha in India using farm and household surveys. The technical efficiency between adopted and non-adopted farmers was compared and the different factors that influence the adoption of CAPS were disentangled using frontier production function and binary logistic models respectively. | An economic assessment on conditions for CAPS adoption in odisha (India)
