The Challenge for Change in Rural Chile; A Study on Diffusion and Adoption of Agricultural Innovations.

Autor/in	Menanteau-Horta, Dario
Institution	Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis.
Titel	The Challenge for Change in Rural Chile; A Study on Diffusion and Adoption of Agricultural Innovations.
Quelle	(1970), (51 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adoption (Ideas); Agricultural Production; Communications; Developing Nations; Diffusion; Extension Agents; Farmers; Industrialization; Innovation; Mass Media; Research Projects; Rural Areas; Socioeconomic Influences; Chile + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ideas; Ideenfindung; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Nachrichtenwesen; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Farmer; Agriculturist; Landwirt; Landwirtin; Industrialisation; Industrialisierung; Massenmedien; Forschungsvorhaben; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Sozioökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	Purposes of the study were (1) to present some of the problems of the organizational structure of Chilean agriculture, and (2) to explore some of the factors related to diffusion and adoption of agricultural practices as aspects of social and technological change and development. Two central factors considered in the research problem were (1) analysis of the processes of communication and diffusion of new ideas and technologies, and (2) acceptance and actual adoption of recommended farm practices among Chilean farmers. The 3 dependent variables selected were exposure to mass media, exposure to technical agricultural communication, and adoption of recommended farm practices. Interviews were conducted with 244 farmers of 3 communities located in the province of Colchagua. It was found that levels of usage of public information channels, as measured by an index of exposure to mass media, were associated with social factors such as age, education, farm size, and income. Other findings suggested that the farmers' informal associates and commercial and institutional sources influenced adoption; that mass media appeared to be divorced from the adoption process; and that agricultural extension service and other agricultural agencies were relatively unimportant as diffusion and adoption agents. (AN)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC