Agricultural Innovation in Asia

Agricultural innovation and Its Impact on Farming and Rural Welfare.- Impacts of Organic Rice Farming on Production Performance in Cambodia: An Application of Propensity Score Matching.- The Adoption of GAP and Impacts on Pig Production in Vietnam: An Application of Probit Model.- Impacts of GAP on Profit efficiency of Tea Farmers in Vietnam: An Application of Stochastic Profit Function.- Impacts of Irrigation, Mechanization and Subsidies on Wheat Efficiency in China: An Application of Two-stage DEA.- Impacts of Information Sources on Technical Inefficiency of Crop Farmers in Vietnam: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis.- Impacts of Maize Production Groups on Commodity Chain in Lao PDR: An Application of Commodity Chain Analysis.- Impacts of Farmers Group on the Technical Efficiency of Oil Palm Production in Indonesia: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Analysis.- Traceability System of Dairy Products and its Impacts on Consumer Behavior in China: An Application of Multinominal Logit Model.- Impacts of Microfinance Program on Rural Households in Myanmar: An Application of Logistic Regression Model.- Smart farming Technology Aoption and Its Determinants in Japan.- Innovation Implementation and Its Determinants in Japanese.- The Role of Education, Institutional Settings and ICT on the Integrated Production Development in Spain.

Professor Teruaki Nanseki was born in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. His academic specialties are agricultural and farm management and agricultural informatics. In 1991, he was conferred a doctorate in agronomy by Kyoto University. Both his bachelor's and master's degrees in agronomy were from Okayama University. He worked in the national research institutes for agriculture and food science for over 20 years. He has been a professor at Kyushu University since 2007. His research works cover not only theory, methods, and information system development in the major fields but also their applications and practices in the real world. His first research topic focuses on the management of risk, information, and human resources of farms. The second topic examines the development and growth of both farms and agriculture. The third topic emphasizes on agricultural innovation, smart farming, and digital agriculture. These research topics are closely connected. He has been the president of the Japanese Society of Agricultural Informatics since 2019. Moreover, he was the president of the Japanese Society of Farm Management from 2014 to 2016.