The role of farmers innovative behavior and social responsibility practices in technology adoption in apple and blueberry farmers in the Central Region of Chile



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conference paper
Author(s): 
Engler A.
Rodriguez M.F.
Cofré G.
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The study focuses on how levels of innovation, measured by complexity and investments requirements of the adopted technologies, relates to innovative behavior and complying with social responsibility practices, as two indicators of the farmer's behavior towards innovation. A typology of farmers with different technological
levels was constructed based on multivariate techniques, according to the adoption of seven technologies. The main objective of the study was to relate SR and innovative behavior to the technology clusters

Publication year: 
2018