Farmers have to overcome the hurdle of whether or not to adopt the mulching technology and how much to pay for the technology. Smallholder farmers rely more on the subsidies for technology adoption and thus adoption may rely on cost effectiveness of subsidy policy. Adoption is dependent on types of practices and more emphasis should be placed on analyzing the impact of tecnology characteristics in adoption analysis. Role of technology in enhancing higher crop production needs to emphasized. Some training programs need to be conducted that may highlight the perceived benefits of technology.