Reasons for Discontinuance of Agricultural Innovations by Farmers in Tarai Region of Uttarakhand

Factors Influencing Smallholder Farmers’ Decision to Abandon Introduced Sustainable Land Management Technologies in Central Ethiopia

“…The implementation stage is associated with the acceptance or trial period of SWC technology, while the confirmation phase is related to the decision to continue using or discontinue using SWC technology (Frei-Landau et al, 2022). According to Huria et al (2019), Roger suggested that discontinuance occurs at each stage in the adoption process. This implies that a farmer may discontinue the introduced SWC measures either from trial/acceptance or full adoption stages.…”

“…Dis-adoption in this paper refers to the gradual abandonment of previously accepted and adopted SWC measures. According to Huria et al (2019) and Singh et al (2020), technology discontinuance can occur shortly after a trial period or after an extended period of continued use. In view of that, the dis-adoption process could take the following sequences: adoption, acceptance/ initial adoption and dis-adoption.…”

“…The prior adoption studies overlooked innovation post-adoption behavior, converging on initial adoption (Ng, 2020). In this paper, dis-adoption refers to the gradual abandonment of previously implemented measures, from a full or initial level of adoption to a no-adoption situation (Huria et al, 2019;Soliman and Rinta-Kahila, 2020). Second, to frame the analytical model, the study conceptually looks into dis-adoption as a multi-stage decisionmaking process.…”

“…Roger suggested discontinuance occurs at each stage in the adoption process. Huria et al (2019) and Singh et al (2020) advocated that abandoning a technology can occur shortly after a trial period (acceptance-rejection thesis) or after an extended period of continued use (adoption-rejection anomaly). This implies that a farmer may discontinue the introduced SWC measures either from trial/acceptance or full adoption stages.…”