The availability of credit positively and significantly influenced adoption of biogas energy in this study.
The result also indicates the frequency of extension contact significantly determines adoption of manure, improved seed, and inorganic fertilizer.
Apple Pay has, by all accounts, significantly broadened adoption of NFC payments, and now a solution opening it up to large numbers of merchants could be on the horizon.
There are three forces that have significantly slowed adoption of SaaS and is allowing software giants SAP, Oracle, Microsoft to catch up SaaS vendors Salesforce.com and NetSuite.
The MVP model results reveal that age of the household head and the square of age of the household head significantly determine adoption of manure and inorganic fertilizer.
The results showed that education, family size, slope of the plot, tenure security, training, access to farm credit and extension service positively and significantly affect adoption of land management practices while age has a negative and significant influence on adoption.
The age of the farm household was negatively and significantly influenced adoption of stone bund and chemical fertilizer; implying that younger farmers had a higher probability of adopting the land management practices than the older farmers, probably due to younger farmers might have longer planning horizon and more flexible in deciding to adopt new ideas and technologies.
This finding is consistent with those from other studies conducted during both SARS [ 6] and pandemic A/H1N1 [ 10, 24], suggesting that affective components contribute significantly to adoption of protective behaviors in response to the threat during epidemics over and above simpler cognitive risk estimates.
Using an endogenous switching regression model, the study has found that a minimum threshold level of education is significantly influencing the adoption of modern varieties of paddy and thereby the farm productivity of adopters only.
Gender significantly influences the adoption of organic cotton.
