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Consumer and
Producer Attitudes Toward Agricultural Biotechnology: Results from a
Three-State Survey
Enefiok P.
Ekanem
Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research Seminar Series
Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN
April 28, 2004
The paper
discusses consumer and producer attitudes toward agricultural
biotechnology in a three-state survey conducted in 2003. Three land
grant universities (the University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, the
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, and North Carolina A&T State
University) partnered with Tennessee State University in implementing
the project. A 22-item survey instrument, designed by collaborating
institutions and administered by the National Agricultural Statistics
Service (NASS), was used in collecting the data reported in this paper.
Information from 163 producers in Arkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee
are reported. Responses to selected questions dealing with production,
marketing, and agricultural biotechnology policy issues are presented.
Results from qualitative and quantitative analyses using frequency
distributions, t-tests and chi square tests of significance are
presented. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was
used in all analyses (see details of related papers and presentations
at:
http://www.tnstate.edu/iager/teams/economics/biotech.htm
and
http://www.tnstate.edu/iager/teams/economics/biotech_prog.htm
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