Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers

Acceleration of agricultural production rates to meet the needs of an ever-growing population remains a central issue today as ever in World agriculture. Various national and international agricultural research centres around the world have invested much efforts in developing new technologies with g...

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Autores principales: Ajayi, O., Nokoe, S.
Formato: Conference Paper
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2000
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92672
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Nokoe, S.
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description Acceleration of agricultural production rates to meet the needs of an ever-growing population remains a central issue today as ever in World agriculture. Various national and international agricultural research centres around the world have invested much efforts in developing new technologies with great potentials for better yield than existing ones, but the level of farmers' adoption of these, which is crucial to the much needed increased production rates have been quite low. Interestingly, studies have shown that technology adoption is not an "event" but a "process" which is dynamic and influenced by some important socio-economic factors. This study, develop models that relates technology adoption rate to these co-determining factors. In general terms, the model should give a very quick knowledge of expected adoption rate, while its estimated parameters will give hints on methods for improved performance.
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spelling CGSpace926722023-06-08T20:58:46Z Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers Ajayi, O. Nokoe, S. adoption probabilities gompertz logit socio-economic factors weibull distribution new technologies farmers Acceleration of agricultural production rates to meet the needs of an ever-growing population remains a central issue today as ever in World agriculture. Various national and international agricultural research centres around the world have invested much efforts in developing new technologies with great potentials for better yield than existing ones, but the level of farmers' adoption of these, which is crucial to the much needed increased production rates have been quite low. Interestingly, studies have shown that technology adoption is not an "event" but a "process" which is dynamic and influenced by some important socio-economic factors. This study, develop models that relates technology adoption rate to these co-determining factors. In general terms, the model should give a very quick knowledge of expected adoption rate, while its estimated parameters will give hints on methods for improved performance. 2000 2018-05-17T09:03:02Z 2018-05-17T09:03:02Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/92672 en Limited Access Ajayi, O. & Nokoe, S. (2000). Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers. Biometry and quality of life: In Proceedings of the SUSAN-IBS scientific workshop,"Biometry and Quality of Life", 23-28 August, 1999, Ibadan, Nigeria: IITA, (p. 228-234).
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gompertz
logit
socio-economic factors
weibull distribution
new technologies
farmers
Ajayi, O.
Nokoe, S.
Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers
title Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers
title_full Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers
title_fullStr Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers
title_full_unstemmed Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers
title_short Conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers
title_sort conceptual models for technology adoption by small scale farmers
topic adoption probabilities
gompertz
logit
socio-economic factors
weibull distribution
new technologies
farmers
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