Guidance and Technology: An Assessment of Project Intervention and Promoted Technologies

Abstract

This study used primary data, collected as part of the
Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project to
compare net returns and cost efficiency between farmers who are
beneficiaries of the project to farmers who are not beneficiaries.
Additionally, non-beneficiary farmers who use the promoted
technologies from the project are compared to other nonbeneficiary
farmers who do not use the promoted technologies.
Propensity score matching is used to account for selection bias
when comparing the outcomes of beneficiary and control groups.
Results indicate higher return for project recipients as well as
farmers who use the CSISA promoted resource-conserving
technologies (RCTs).