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Socioeconomic Research Program:
Relative to the other old disciplines in ARTC, socioeconomic research has been a recent activity, introduced in the early 1970s. It has continued to acquire increasing importance and its role has further increased within the changes brought about through the new paradigm of market liberalization and its effect on production, finance and marketing strategies and policies. Economic viability considerations and beneficiaries convictions are becoming important yardsticks for defining research themes and priorities to generate improved technologies that stand good chances for adoption. The Socioeconomic program continues to play its role in the delineation and transfer of such technologies, monitoring of their variability and their rates of adoption by users and estimating their economic and social impacts. It is also engaged in the analysis of agricultural policies and their effects on production as well as analyses related to the competitiveness and comparative advantages of agricultural enterprises.
