Adoption of drip irrigation in Kerala State of India is very low and potential exists toincrease its adoption in the State. A field survey was conducted in two districts to determine themajor factors influencing farmers’ adoption of drip irrigation and to draw conclusions that willhelp in developing policy and institutional interventions to encourage the adoption. The resultsindicated that adop...

This paper reports the preliminary results of a study conducted to assess and quantify the adoption of Free/ Open Source Software (FOSS) by organisations and enterprises. While almost all organisations use FOSS in some form today, there is a wide variation in the manner and extent to which they do so, and presently no quantitative measure exists that can capture the true picture. The present wo...

beekeeping as a technology package disseminated to target farmers in nigeria seems to suffer setbacks ranging from negative perception of farmers about the technology to technical contents of the package. this study therefore analyzes the technology attributes that influence non adoption of apiary technology packages in cross river state, nigeria. purposive and multistage random sampling techni...

    Beekeeping as a technology package disseminated to target farmers in Nigeria seems to suffer setbacks ranging from negative perception of farmers about the technology to technical contents of the package. This study therefore analyzes the technology attributes that influence non adoption of apiary technology packages in Cross River State, Nigeria. Purposive and multist...

The objectives of this study are (i) to develop the Recommended Technology Adoption Index (RTAI), and (ii) to determine the relationship between socio-economic characteristics of the farmers which affect the technology adoption level of Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum). The average technology adoption index of study area was 0.72 with minimum 0.46 and maximum of 0.89 and the correlation betwee...

This paper aims to describe interrelationships between size of the organization and adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT). We hypothesize that size of the organization is interrelated with ICT usage. By analyzing the data from 68 organizations we have classified to micro, small, medium-sized and large enterprises and calculated composite index of ICT adoption in each orga...

The intent of this paper is to provide empirically tested and validated metrics to capture the gradual adoption of ecommerce among manufacturing SMEs. The results suggest that e-commerce adoption is purposely undertaken in a cumulative, and thus path-dependent, way. The findings also demonstrate that most SMEs follow e-commerce adoption trajectories. The proposed stage model for e-commerce adop...