seed and information exchange through social networks the case of rice farmers of indonesia and lao pdr种子和信息交换通过社交网络的稻农的印度尼西亚和老挝.pdf

Sociology Mind 2012. Vol.2, No.2, 169-176 Published Online April 2012 in SciRes (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/sm) /10.4236/sm.2012.22022 Seed and Information Exchange through Social Networks: The Case of Rice Farmers of Indonesia and Lao PDR 1* 1 1 2 3 Gerlie Tatlonghari , Thelma Paris , Valerien Pede , Inpong Siliphouthone , Rita Suhaeti 1International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Metro Manila, The Philippines 2National Rice Research Programme, National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute, Vientiane, Lao PDR 3Indonesian Center for Agro-Socio-Economic Analysis and Policy Studies, Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development, Ministry of Agriculture, Jakarta, Indonesia * Email: g.tatlonghari@ Received December 7th th th , 2011; revised January 8 , 2012; accepted February 9 , 2012 The study investigates the structure of information exchange among men and women farmers who were involved in participatory varietal selection (PVS) on submergence-tolerant varieties in pilot communities in Lao PDR and Indonesia. The paper shows that network relationships influence the dissemination of new information on seed. In their decisions to adopt new rice varieti