Constraints to Farm Level Adoption of New Sustainable Technologies and Management Practices in New Zealand Pastoral Agriculture

G P Rauniyar

W J Parker

Department of Agribusiness and Resource Management
Massey University
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Palmerston North

MAF Policy Technical Paper 98/3

ISBN 0-478-07479-4

ISSN 1171-4662

February 1998

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While every effort has been made to ensure the information in this publication is accurate, the Ministry Agriculture does not accept any responsibility or liability for error or fact omission, interpretation opinion which may be present, nor for the consequences of any decisions based on this information.

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MAF Policy
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Acknowledgements

The authors thank B Wallace, M Leybourne, T Kelly, J Kidd, Bruce Withell, B Willis, J Clough, W Anderson, H Collins and L Hansen for their assistance at various stages of this research.

We express special thanks to the participants of the farmer-scientists/policy-advisers exchange forum members of the dairy farm discussion groups and the more than 300 farmers who gave their valuable time to complete the questionnaire.

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