The effects of agricultural technology adoption on farm performance have been studied extensively but with limited information on who should be targeted during scaling-up. We adopt the newly defined marginal treatment effect approach in examining how farmers’ resource endowment and unobserved factors influence the marginal benefits of adopting sustainable intensification (SI) practices. We estimate both the marginal and average benefits of adopting SI practices and predict which marginal farm household entrants will benefit the most at scale. Findings indicate that farmers’ resource endowment and unobserved factors affect the marginal benefits of adopting SI practices, which also influence maize yield and net returns among adopters. Finally, results imply that scaling up SI practices will favour farm household entrants associated with the lowest probability of adoption based on observed socioeconomic characteristics.

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扩大农业技术：应该针对谁？

农业技术采用对农场绩效的影响已被广泛研究，但在扩大规模时应针对谁的信息有限。我们采用新定义的边际处理效应方法来检验农民的资源禀赋和未观察到的因素如何影响采用可持续集约化 (SI) 实践的边际收益。我们估计采用 SI 实践的边际和平均收益，并预测哪些边际农户进入者将在规模上受益最大。研究结果表明，农民的资源禀赋和未观察到的因素会影响采用 SI 做法的边际收益，这也会影响采用者的玉米产量和净回报。最后，