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AgricultureAgricultural EconomicsAgricultural EducationAgricultural DevelopmentRural DevelopmentRural EconomicsAgricultural ExtensionAgricultural Household EconomicsAgricultural Production SystemsExtension PolicyFarm Household EconomicsFarm ProductivityAgricultural Enterprise DevelopmentAgricultural Extension EffectsAgricultural Extension SystemsAgricultural LabourExtension Education SystemsFarm Household EfficiencyFarm-level EfficiencyFarmer-extension Interactions
The purpose of the study is to explore the relation between the formal, nonformal, and informal education that farmers in Peru have received and their subsequent efficiency as farm operators. Education has an important role, but this role depends crucially on its technological and economic context. The effects of schooling are stronger in the more modern regions. A minimum level of schooling is necessary for the positive effects to appear, and this level increases with the modernity of the environment. Agricultural extension has a direct effect on contacted farmers, but the effectiveness of extension depends on the appropriateness of the message to the stage of agricultural development of the farmers. An indirect effect of extension through imitation is also of importance. Migration experience has powerful effects as a form of informal education.