Precision Farming Technology Adoption in Cotton Farming: Duration Analysis (original) (raw)

and Virginia). The purpose of this survey was to obtain information about the cotton producers' attitude towards the adoption of precision agricultural technology. Data consists of 7456 observation for 681 cotton farmers who adopted technologies between 1966 and 2007. Considering, year as a unit of duration for technologies adoption, we observed whether the cotton producer adopt the technologies or not in a particular year. Each cotton producer can adopt one or more than one technology as a case of multiple technologies adoption. There are total of 474 events with each farm experiencing an average of 0.70 events. The events in this data set range from 1 to 11 for 11 technologies. Figures 1 and 2 give summary representation of adoption behavior of these cotton producers. We found that 255 farmers adopted only one technology; 97 farmers adopted exactly two technology; 55 farmers adopted exactly 3 technology; 24 farmers adopted only four technology, 9 farmers adopted exactly 5 technology, 4 farmers adopted exactly 6 technology. Further there is exactly one farmer who adopts 7 to 10 technology. Finally, no farmer adopted all 11 technologies.