Modernisation in Agriculture: What Makes a Farmer Adopt an Innovation?

dc.creator	Diederen, Paul
dc.creator	van Meijl, Hans
dc.creator	Wolters, Arjan
dc.date	2017-04-01T13:58:40Z
dc.date.accessioned	2026-07-09T03:48:46Z
dc.description	This paper addresses the question which factors influence a farmer in deciding to adopt an innovation. We differentiate between innovations that are new to the farmer, but already well established in the sector, innovations that are early in their process of diffusion, and innovations that are new to the farmer's sector. We use an ordered probit approach to relate adoption behaviour to variables that capture characteristics of the farm (labour and financial resources and market position), of the business environment of the farm (type of production and market, degree of regulation) and of the farmer (access to information, capabilities, preferences). We use data on 865 Dutch farms and find that innovation adoption is positively related to labour resources, market position, access to information and past adoption behaviour, and negatively to solvency and the degree of market regulation.
dc.identifier	doi:10.22004/ag.econ.24864
dc.identifier	https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/24864/files/cp02di11.pdf
dc.identifier	http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/24864
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/540286
dc.language	eng
dc.publisher
dc.source	http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/24864
dc.title	Modernisation in Agriculture: What Makes a Farmer Adopt an Innovation?
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