Technology transfer and agricultural development

Yet technical change is one of the more difficult products for a country in the early stages of economic development to produce. In agriculture the initial success of the "green revolution" has resulted in renewed interest in the economic and institutional considerations involved in international technology transfer. In this paper, from earlier research on the diffusion of culture and technology we draw insights that can contribute to a more adequate understanding to the processes involved in the international transfer of agricultural technology and the impact of such transfer on the location of agricultural production and international trade in agricultural commodities. This analysis leads us to place major emphasis on the emergence of national experiment-station capacity for adaptive research and development as a critical element in the international transfer or "naturalization" of agricultural technology.