Lab to land – factors driving adoption of dairy farming innovations among Indian farmers
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2016
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Abstract
In India sustaining dairy farming as a rural livelihood
and to meet the growing demand of milk, necessitates
development and dissemination of technology for improving
the farm’s output. There is also a need to understand
how far existing innovations are adopted by
farmers and factors influencing adoption and/or rejection.
Hence, the factors that influence adoption and
the extent of adoption were consolidated from past research
using meta analysis and other techniques. It
was found that at large-level farmer’s knowledge (true
effect size r value +0.64) and at medium-level (true effect
size r value ranging from +0.32 to +0.47) attitude,
risk-taking behaviour and economic motivation, milk
production and sales, education, extension agency contacts
and mass media exposure influenced adoption of
dairy innovation. Further, along with the above factors
poor innovation attributes were limiting adoption
to 55%.
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TNV_CS_2016_111(7)1231-1234
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Veterinary Science