Olufemi Samson Adesina

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ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE FARMING SYSTEMS WAGENINGEN WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

https://www.oecd.org/greengrowth/sustainable-agriculture/2739771.pdf

The degree to which farmers adopt agricultural innovation largely depends on a number of factors (e.g. income, educational status, information access problems etc.). However, the best way to overcome these challenges is through agricultural extension and education programmes.

Olufemi Samson Adesina, I agree that the adoption of research-led innovation is patchy. Thus, researchers, extensionists, and policymakers need to create an enabling environment that makes agricultural innovations simple and accessible to farmers and well-placed to yield results on the ground.

Thanks for your contribution Kolade Otokiti

Oluwatosin Esther Ojotu I appreciate your contribution.

Thanks.

Olufemi Samson Adesina

You can find the below-mentioned report on the link shared here with

ADOPTION OF TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE FARMING SYSTEMS WAGENINGEN WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS

https://www.oecd.org/greengrowth/sustainable-agriculture/2739771.pdf

Wonderful question and interested discussions.

Srinivas Kasulla Thanks for your rich contribution.

Olufemi Samson Adesina welcome and always and looking forward to contribute more on the topic

Srinivas Kasulla Thanks for your interest in the topic.

Exactly, The technology adoption rates amongst small-scale farmers remain low, because it is dependent on some levels for example educational and income status, of farmers. also level of agricultural training in this countries is weakly.

Dear Olufemi Samson Adesina,

If the utilization rates of new, innovative agrotechnology among farmers are low, even though scientific evidence shows positive aspects of applying certain new technologies, there may be several reasons for this. First of all, the reason may be the lack of trust of farmers in new technologies resulting from ineffective, coordinated by central public institutions of the agricultural sector, e.g. the Ministry of Agriculture, social campaigns promoting new solutions, new agrotechnologies, which should contribute to increasing the efficiency of agricultural production while maintaining certain standards environmental protection. Such social information campaigns can be combined with promoting, for example, the need to develop sustainable agritourism and organic farming. In addition, it is important that such social information campaigns are carried out by central public institutions of the agricultural sector, e.g. the Ministry of Agriculture, and not by commercial companies producing certain new products aimed at increasing the efficiency of production processes in agriculture. It is important that the promoted new agrotechnologies and innovative solutions dedicated to farms are thoroughly scientifically tested and directed to the production and sale of specific products intended for the production of agricultural crops after obtaining the necessary approvals and licenses confirming the high level of ecological safety and the absence of negative externalities, i.e. no generation of environmental pollution and no additional greenhouse gas emissions. In addition, it is important that new agrotechnologies or innovations in agricultural production are easily accessible to farmers, i.e. that a logistic sales system (including via the Internet), a servicing and agricultural advisory system for farmers and a relatively low cost of acquiring new technologies or produced for them are developed. on the basis of new agro-products dedicated to farms. Only after all the above-mentioned factors are met, the level of farmers' confidence in new agrotechnology can increase significantly.

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Happy New Year 2021

Dariusz Prokopowicz

Policy friendliness towards adoption of technology in agricultural production is key.

Any technology to adopt amid in the farming community is very tough task, so from policy maker to Department of Agriculture Extension should have to take various initiatives to adopt new technologies.

Field demonstration

Thanks M.K. Tripathi

Many thanks Md. Abdur Razzak Choudhury

Well said Aladejare Samson Adeniyi

Thanks

Thanks for the insightful contribution Dariusz Prokopowicz

Many thanks M. A. Attia

Hello Adesina, I have seen the best way is to give them incentives for a period of more than two years. Giving a technology to farmers without involving them normally doesn't work. Farmer normally the peasant farmers follow their old traditions.

Thanks Kiprotich Kiptum Farmers participation and involvement at the very beginning is key.

Dear Olufemi Samson Adesina,

We in Brazil has the same problem, Brazilian farmers it has a lot of difficulty in acquiring a product or service that does not know the real operation. What we are developing is the visit to agricultural fairs and seeking to demonstrate the real functioning and perceptions of current consumers.