Abstract
ABSTRACTIt is widely accepted that agricultural innovations are vital to ensure food security and economic development. While farmers are among the key sources of agricultural innovations, many studies conducted in the past conceived them as adopters of externally generated technologies. They regarded farmers only as adopters of induced technologies. This study is designed to analyze farmers’ participation in agricultural innovation activities using survey and experimental data. Both descriptive and econometric techniques were employed to analyze the data. It appears that risk attitudes and time preferences are variables that enhance farmers’ participation in agricultural innovation activities. Wealth and socioeconomic variables such as access to information and irrigation facilities, input usage and age of household head are significantly correlated with farmers’ participation in agricultural innovation activities. The findings comply with the induced innovation hypothesis, which recognizes the importance of threats and opportunities to triggering farmers’ participation in agricultural innovation activities.
Highlights
The development of the agricultural sector is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, raise incomes and improve food security for about 80% of the world’s rural poor whose occupation is mainly farming (McArthur and McCord 2017; Asravor 2018)
This paper examined the relationship between the dependent variable and the independent variables
This study aims to analyze the nature of farmers’ participation in agricultural innovation activities, and its relationship with risk attitudes, time preferences and socioeconomic variables such as age, access to information and irrigation, extension visits and others
Summary
The development of the agricultural sector is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, raise incomes and improve food security for about 80% of the world’s rural poor whose occupation is mainly farming (McArthur and McCord 2017; Asravor 2018). The sector is threatened by several factors (Asravor 2018) These factors include, but are not limited to, low usage of improved seed varieties, as is the use of many other agricultural technologies (Spielman et al 2011; Lemessa 2017); low rate of fertilizer application; poor extension service and other countless risk factors (Asravor 2018)
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