What is it about?
In the context of agribusiness, technology and innovation have led to major transformations in many countries. Precision dairy farming technologies enable cost optimization, quality control, waste reduction, achieving economies of scale, efficiency in dairy resource utilization, improvement in productivity, standardized processes, enhanced decision support system and overall farm management. With the help of NGT based outcome, this research is an attempt to showcase the enablers of technology adoption in dairy farming and how these enablers interact with each other in a hierarchical form using ISM-MICMAC methodology. Experience in the dairy business, competitive pressure and digital literacy were found as the most crucial and driving enablers. However, agreeableness and managerial interest were found as the most dependent enablers of technology adoption. The interpretations drawn from the model can help the decision makers, policy makers and farmers not only in India but can serve as the base for other nations dependent upon agriculture to understand the inter dependency among enablers and suggestions to plan and channel technology adoption by focusing upon critical ones.
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Why is it important?
Despite being an overall production-wise rich country, India’s dairy sector lacks in terms of yield per cattle, overall dairy farm output, effective herd management and lack of effective technology acceptance and implementation.
Perspectives
As it is widely said that unless the roots are strong one cannot expect to have a strong growth of a tree, Similarly the roots of Indian economy primarily lies in the hands of agriculture. It is important to realize agriculture must be given attention and technology R&D in this field is quite essential to boost productivities. Therefore, dairy farming as a part of agriculture has shown significant growth after the introduction of precision dairy farming concept. The study on enablers of technology adoption in dairy farming along with their hierarchical interactions can help the decision makers and policy planners to make plans and strategies as per the reflections from the model regarding the cruciality of certain enablers and dependence of certain ones.
Dr. Hans Kaushik
Dayalbagh Educational Institute
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This page is a summary of: Examining the Linkages of Technology Adoption Enablers in Context of Dairy Farming Using ISM-MICMAC Approach, Research on World Agricultural Economy, November 2023, Nan Yang Academy of Sciences Pte Ltd,
DOI: 10.36956/rwae.v4i4.887.
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