Technology And Technology: Farmer's Definition Of Technology

1. Farmer’s definition of technology.

The aims of technology adoption is to increase production by exporting, not only for national food security. Technology refers to how to cultivate a crop successfully such as how to take care of plant for its healthy and good growing and the ways to apply fertilizer and control pests. Besides, the definition from farmers is what introduced by scientists for example knowledge and technology refers to what crop varieties and what kind of fertilizer that suitable for soil.

2. Farmer’s perception of technology.

Farmer’s believe that technology is important in agricultural production and good to farmers. This is because technologies give good efficiency of high yield, less pest and more benefit.

3. Factors affecting

Furthermore, with the small number of extension workers that farmers have, not all of them are able to adopt technology and the fact that it comprises many measures that required a high level of knowledge from farmers. In the other hand, some machines are too heavy, which creates mobility problems as it is difficult for farmers to transfer the machine from field to field according to Truong (2008). Besides, compare with traditional farmers that it enjoying minimum costs with respect to conduct their farming routines. In the case of paddy farmers, for example, the rice dryers, which help to reduce grain loss from sun drying, involve a higher cost of drying per dryer as they rely on the sun for the same process and farmers need to consider transportation costs, as they must transfer their materials from their house to the dryer location. Technologies also making them difficult for farmers to apply and require more time and more

2) Farmer’s perception 1 Farmers did their old practices and hesitated to adopt the innovation because they worried the losses of yield on things that they are less compatible with.

3) Capital/ poverty 1 More capital was also needed for certified seeds and new rice varieties with expensive technologies tools.

4) Age 2 Young farmers prefer to use technology rather than conservative old.

5) Ethnicity 2 Most of the minority people are poor and do earning from working as off-farm hired labours and they have inadequate time to learn innovations.

6) Gender 3 Woman are less exposed to technologies leading to disagreements with their spouse in applying new technologies.

7) Land size 4 Small farmers not interests on new technologies and require less advanced technologies compared to commercialized farms.

8) Family labor 4 Lack of family labor prohibited the usage of new technology resulted from less interest among younger generation on