ABSTRACT
The planning criteria will change in relative importance over the adoption period. Profitability will be consistently important as the one criterion measuring the positive incentives to change. As attitudes toward change improve later in the adoption period, and as the scale and incongruity of both increase, it will be complexity and acceptability which, with profitability, dominate the farmers’ decisions on whether to sustain the adoption. Selections which leave family labor unused reduce the efficiency of the solution because they require innovation on a larger scale. COTM has been selected as the key innovation, and extension strategy is aimed toward its full exploitation under the conditions expected at the end of the adoption period. With the introduction of credit facilities, extension content will continue to be improved spacing and weeding, but additionally farmers will be encouraged to take up insecticides.
