Agriculture In change: evaluation of factors influencing the adoption of smart farming technologies in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Buhl, Martin Thomas
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/132387
• topic: Technology adoption; Portugal; Agriculture; Smart farming; Smart farming technologies; Technological innovations; Farmers perceptions; Training program; Farmers´ age; Farmers´ education; Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais::Economia e Gestão

Recent developments in technology, such as Smart Farming Technologies (“SFT”),have the potential of revolutionizing agriculture .However, the level of adoption falls short of expectations, implying the importance of understanding the drivers of and barriers to technology adoption. Based on interviews with sector experts and field survey data, this paper analyses factors that may condition the adoption of SFT in Portugal. The logistic regression shows the importance of cost of investment, trialability of the technology, the awareness of available training programs and external financing, as well as the age and education of farmers for the adoption of SFT.