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FARMERS’ ADOPTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME IN HAMBANTOTA DISTRICT IN SRI LANKA: AN ANALYSIS OF CONSTRAINING FACTORS

Sri Lanka Journal of Business Economics

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Title FARMERS’ ADOPTION OF NEW AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAMME IN HAMBANTOTA DISTRICT IN SRI LANKA: AN ANALYSIS OF CONSTRAINING FACTORS
 
Creator Silva, K. N. Nadeeshani
Broekel, Tom
 
Description This paper examines the major factors constraining the adoption of a newlyintroduced paddy improvement technology programme by farmers in theHambantota district, as seen from the perspective of Agricultural extensionofficers. Further, the adoption pattern of those technological programmesby farmers was analyzed. A structured interview schedule was used tocollect data from a purposively selected sample of 30 AI officers. Data wasanalyzed using the principal factor model with iteration and Varimaxrotation, and simple linear regression analysis was done to explain anyrelationship between the adoption levels of farmers in each of the adoptionstages. The results showed that a majority of AI officers perceived that only40-60 per cent of farmers actually adopted the new technology programme.As for the percentage of farmers who proceeded to adopt each stage of themulti-stage process, the majority of the farmers in the communityprogressed to the awareness stage but only about 50 per cent of farmerscontinued until the final adoption stage was reached. Among the factorsthat could be cited as constraining the adoption: a lack of resources,incompatibility and complexity of new technology, and socio-economicand cultural constraints. Inadequacies in extension intervention, technicaltraining and information were the main constraints that compromised theinformation and knowledge network. Moreover, the Yaya 2 programme washindered by environmental and economic barriers, poor educationalcompetencies of farmers and weak information links with the other actorsof the network. These findings suggest that there is an urgent need forresearchers, policy makers and administrators of the extension service toconsider these constraints seriously so as to overcome them to increase theadoption rate by farmers of the new paddy technology programme inHambantota.Keywords: Agricultural Technology, Adoption Stages, Adoption,Constraints
 
Publisher University of Sri Jayewardenepura
 
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Date 2019-03-21
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journals.sjp.ac.lk/index.php/sljbe/article/view/3836
 
Source Sri Lanka Journal of Business Economics; Vol 6 (2016)
ISSN 1391 – 9601
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://journals.sjp.ac.lk/index.php/sljbe/article/view/3836/3033
 
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