SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS AND ADOPTION O FENERGY CROPS

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Haluk Gedikoglu

International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics (IJFAEC), 1, vol. 3, issue 1

Abstract: Current study analyzes the socio-economic factors that impact farmers’ willingness to grow switchgrass and miscanthus in Missouri and Iowa. The results of the current study show that current level of farmers’ willingness to grow for either crop is low. Hence, there are barriers to accomplishing the goal of producing 21 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuel by 2022. It is also found that currently growing energy crops is more attractive to small farms as a source of crop diversification, rather than an alternative crop production system in the big scale by large farms.

Keywords: Bioenergy; Cellulosic Ethanol; Switchgrass; Miscanthus; Technology Adoption; Agricultural and Food Policy; Political Economy; Production Economics; Productivity Analysis; Resource /Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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