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Abstract
We apply the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to identify farmers’ psychological constructs
toward agricultural technology in three dimensions: attitude, subjective norm, and perceived
behavioral control. We use data from 731 farmers in Eastern India. The sample farmers come
from two groups: 157 farmers who have received seed mini-kits of a new stress-tolerant rice
variety, called Swarna Sub 1, from NGOs; and 574 farmers who were randomly selected in the
villages where the mini-kits were distributed. In this paper, we find that the mini-kit recipient
farmers have higher scores on psychological constructs toward new technologies than the
representative farmers. We also find that scheduled caste, female, and less educated farmers have
lower scores on the psychological constructs. Among representative farmers, we estimate an
adoption model of Swarna Sub 1 and find that psychological constructs are positively associated
with the adoption of Swarna Sub 1. Although the causality between the psychological constructs
and the adoption of Swarna Sub 1 is indecisive in this paper, the result indicates the importance
of investigating farmers’ psychological constructs in technology adoption in developing
countries.