Abstract
Abstract The article deals with consumer (farming) purchasing behaviour in the advanced mechanized irrigation industry. The consumer decisionmaking model by Engel-Kollat-Blackwell was used as a basis for the theoretical research, and principal factor analysis was the statistical technique employed to analyse the data. Ten factors (explaining an extremely high cumulative variance of 96.8 per cent) were identified from the rotated factor matrix, and ranked in order of importance. The first five factors, which is considered to be the most important factors (explaining a cumulative variance of 71.1 per cent) were labelled as “Financial planning”, “Managerial aspects”, “Environmental concerns”, “Design aspects” and “Production potential”. The five factors which is regarded as not so important were labeled “Return on investment”, “Operational qualities”, “Dealer orientation”, “Service qualities” and “Past experience”. Three major groups could benefit greatly from understanding buying behaviour within the advanc...
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