*A Review of the Factors Affecting Adoption of Precision Agriculture Applications in Cotton… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.114113*

in the adoption of new technology, such as the forms of joint machine use (e.g., machinery rings) because the individuals make their decisions on the adoption of new technologies on the basis of information coming through these channels. This means that relevant industry players and suppliers affected in the application and marketing of the technology are dominant with regard to the application and adoption. Nair et al. [75] determined that farm size, extension activities, percentage of land owned by a farmer, and the age-education had significant impacts on the choice of the VDTs and VRT. They stated that in particular, younger and more educated farmers were more likely to adopt VDRs and VRT.

A recent study by Paudel et al. [76], who analyzed the duration of PAT adoption that addresses heterogeneity and event dependence between PAT adoptions among the US cotton farmers. Their results indicated that farmers with large farms, a higher share of total cultivated farmland, a higher percentage of income from farming, and farmers using computers for farm management were more likely to adopt PAT. Further, the researchers observed that cotton producers who think that PAT would be valuable in the future and those receiving farming information from university publications were more likely to adopt PAT soon after the technologies become available. In order to increase the adoption of PAT, they recommend the following remarks:


Overall, we can summarize the main deterrents to the widespread adoption of PA as follows;

