Examining the determinants of agricultural innovation activities: a case study of emerging sugarcane farmers in South Africa

IF 1.6 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agrekon Pub Date : 2023-09-11 DOI:10.1080/03031853.2023.2255167

Lloyd J. S. Baiyegunhi

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Since innovation is regarded as a source of a firm's development, productivity, and competitive advantage, the identification of the drivers of innovation activities is important for businesses and governments. Based on a case study of 35 emerging sugarcane growers in KwaZulu-Natal's North Coast, South Africa, this study employed the Nossal and Lim framework, which utilised the criteria and methodologies described in the Oslo Manual to measure the innovation activities of firms. The Ordered Probit Model (OPM) was utilised to estimate the factors impacting the innovation activities of the emerging sugarcane farmers. The study findings show that majority of farmers (57%) are highly innovative, with process innovation being the most popular type of innovation. Furthermore, the OPM results revealed that several socioeconomic, institutional, and farm level factors are statistically significant in explaining farmers’ capacity for innovation. Therefore, it is essential for farm managers and policymakers to consider and incorporate these range of elements that have a positive link with innovation and are crucial for new farming ideas.

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考察农业创新活动的决定因素:对南非新兴甘蔗农民的案例研究

由于创新被视为企业发展、生产力和竞争优势的来源，因此确定创新活动的驱动因素对企业和政府都很重要。基于对南非夸祖鲁-纳塔尔省北海岸35个新兴甘蔗种植者的案例研究，本研究采用了Nossal和Lim框架，该框架利用《奥斯陆手册》中描述的标准和方法来衡量企业的创新活动。运用有序概率模型(Ordered Probit Model, OPM)对影响新兴甘蔗农户创新活动的因素进行估计。研究结果表明，大多数农民(57%)具有高度的创新能力，其中工艺创新是最受欢迎的创新类型。此外，OPM的结果表明，社会经济、制度和农场层面的几个因素在解释农民的创新能力方面具有统计学意义。因此，农场管理者和政策制定者必须考虑并纳入这些与创新有积极联系的因素，这些因素对新的农业理念至关重要。

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Agrekon AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY-

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2.80

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7.70%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Agrekon publishes scholarly articles that contribute to the existing literature in the domain of Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics as it applies to Southern Africa. The editors of Agrekon therefore invite contributions in this context that provide new insights, either through the problems they address, the methods they employ or the theoretical and practical insights gained from the results. The quarterly journal serves as the official publication of the Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA) and is published by Taylor & Francis.