This dataset was created by integrating 2018 georeferenced household data from the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) with a rice technology census initially published on Mendeley Data. The final dataset contains information regarding the digital ability, technology adoption, crop-livestock diversification, and farming performance of rice-growing households in Benin. The empirical analysis presented in the paper submitted to the International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability is supported by this evidence.