Relative Effects of Mediating and Independent Factors on Farmers' Acceptance to Pay for Public Extension Visits | Chapter 5 | Current Topics on Business, Economics and Finance Vol. 9

 The study examined the relative effects of interceding and independent determinants on farmers' acceptance to provide towards the delivery of more public continuation farm visits as needed by those the one can afford to pay. This inquiry in South Africa, was motivated for one fact that most public extension institutions, especially, in underdeveloped countries, operate on incompetent budgets. Adoption behaviour studies, therefore, need expected as cost-efficient as possible by meeting on the factors that create a significant offering to our understanding of the issue at hand. A almost-structured, self-executed questionnaire was used to collect dossier from 97 medium and small-scale crop peasants in the Free State Province of South Africa, from 1 September to 7 October 2010. Non-probability inspecting techniques were working to select respondents. The results show that the interfering variables, more than the independent variables, considerably influenced producers' acceptance to finance the delivery of public continuation farm visits. Need tension, especially, the distinctness between hoped and present situations concerning practice adoption and result efficiency, fashioned the most individual contributions to the difference in farmers' agreement to pay for the transfer of public extension farm visits. Adoption behaviour study could, then, be focused on a limited number of interceding variables in adoption surveys. This attracted approach on the more direct precursors of behaviour in acceptance investigations offers convenience for a more rigorous evaluation of the relevant mediating variables that can be transformed compared to the more changeless independent variables. Furthermore, this approach has opportunity and cost-saving implications for continuation organizations by lowering the size of the survey inquiry. Another implication of the results concerning this study is that Extension theory is more well-supplied because the framework for endorsement behaviour analysis that was used to resolve the respondents’ agreement to pay for farm visits, resumes to yield consistent results.

Author(s) Details:

D. B. Afful,
Department of Agriculture and Health, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa.

A. Obi,
Department of Agriculture and Health, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, University of South Africa, South Africa.

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