Modernisation in Agriculture: What Makes a Farmer Adopt an Innovation?
This paper addresses the question which factors influence a farmer in deciding to adopt an innovation. We differentiate between innovations that are new to the farmer, but already well established in the sector, innovations that are early in their process of diffusion, and innovations that are new to the farmer's sector. We use an ordered probit approach to relate adoption behaviour to variables that capture characteristics of the farm (labour and financial resources and market position), of the business environment of the farm (type of production and market, degree of regulation) and of the farmer (access to information, capabilities, preferences). We use data on 865 Dutch farms and find that innovation adoption is positively related to labour resources, market position, access to information and past adoption behaviour, and negatively to solvency and the degree of market regulation.
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2002
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Authors: | Diederen, Paul ; van Meijl, Hans ; Wolters, Arjan |
Institutions: | European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE |
Keywords: | Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies |
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