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Title:A Longitudinal Analysis of Factors Influencing Increased Technology Adoption in Swaziland, 1985-1991
Authors:Shields, Martin L.ISNI
Rauniyar, Ganesh P.ISNI
Goode, Frank M.ISNI
Year:1993
Periodical:Journal of Developing Areas
Volume:27
Issue:4
Period:July
Pages:469-484
Language:English
Geographic term:Swaziland - Eswatini
Subjects:agricultural technology
maize
Development and Technology
Agriculture, Natural Resources and the Environment
External links:https://www.jstor.org/stable/4192257
http://search.proquest.com/pao/docview/1311648529
Abstract:Technological change in agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is necessary in any effort to obtain sustainable increases in food production. Yet, the diffusion of these technologies has not been rapid. A central question is why farmers are slow to adopt production-increasing technologies. This paper argues that technology adoption, rather than being an event, is best seen as a process shaped by a multitude of changing factors. The paper offers insight into this process by determining those socioeconomic factors associated with farm-level changes in the rates of adoption of selected technologies over time. Factors investigated include farm size, farm labour, input and output prices, capital availability, education, risk and uncertainty, and draft animal ownership. The study employs data gathered in 1985, 1988 and 1991 through three separate surveys of 85 households to examine maize technology adoption in Swaziland between 1985 and 1991. Of the eight concepts investigated, all but input prices were found to be significant in at least one of the models used. The most persistent result of the study was the effect of increased labour availability on the probability of increased adoption of modern technologies. Other important results showed the influence of the availability of capital on the adoption process, the significance of farm size in the fertilizer models, and the role of risk in the adoption process. Notes, ref.
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