Improving Dissemination Strategies to Increase Technology Adoption by Smallholders in the Tunisian Arid Land Areas: An assessment from follow up survey

Boubaker Dhehibi, Udo Rudiger, Mohamed Zied Dhraief. (27/5/2019). Improving Dissemination Strategies to Increase Technology Adoption by Smallholders in the Tunisian Arid Land Areas: An assessment from follow up survey. Beirut, Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).

Abstract

This present study comes as a second step of the research project “Mind the Gap: Improving Dissemination Strategies to Increase Technology Adoption by Smallholders” and presents the results of the follow-up survey conducted on December 2018. The project is implemented in two governorates with similar agro-ecological conditions: Zaghouan and Kairouan. 671 questionnaires of the baseline survey were divided into 217 questionnaires in Zaghouan and 454 questionnaires in Kairouan. This report has a particular aim to find the mechanisms through which farmers can effectively adopt agricultural technologies that may improve their economic status and wellbeing. The findings from the survey are presented using descriptive statistics based on frequencies and percentages.