@article{Yamano:284812,
      recid = {284812},
      author = {Yamano, T. and Bhandari, H. and Malabayabas, M.L and  Habib, M.A. and Das, S.K.},
      title = {Bidding for Seed Price via Mobile Phone: A Case of  Submergence-tolerant Rice in Northern Bangladesh},
      address = {2017-01},
      number = {2196-2019-1278},
      pages = {13},
      year = {2017},
      abstract = {We conducted a bidding survey by calling 461 farmers on  their mobile phones and asked their bidding prices for a 10  kg bag of two submergence-tolerant rice varieties. We  delivered seed bags to farmers whose bidding price was  higher than a pre-fixed price. The sample farmers were  selected from panel data conducted in 2013 and 2015. We  found that farmers who experienced floods in 2015 bid for a  higher price for Swarna-Sub1, one of the two  submergence-tolerant rice varieties. The farmers who had  indicated shortage of Swarna-Sub1 seeds in the 2015 survey  were more likely to participate in bidding for Swarna-Sub1.  Regarding the bidding process, the timing of phone bidding  mattered. Farmers participated in phone bidding more in the  morning, on holidays, and later in the planting season. The  results in the paper suggest a possible use of mobile  phones for marketing new rice varieties and other  agricultural inputs.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/284812},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.284812},
}