@article{Palmer:187833,
      recid = {187833},
      author = {Palmer, Donald},
      title = {An Analysis of the Factors Affecting the Adoption of Good  Agricultural Practices Among Sugarcane Farmers in the Dry  North Ecological Zone in Jamaica},
      address = {2011},
      number = {530-2016-38285},
      pages = {1},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {This study discusses some factors which affect the  adoption of good agricultural practices among a group of  sugarcane farmers. The data were collected via a  questionnaire administered in 2009 as part of a cost of  production survey. The data were analyzed using descriptive  statistics such as the mean, standard deviation,  correlation and regression analyses. The results of the  regression analysis indicated that knowledge about good  agricultural practices, experience as measured by the  number of years the farmers were growing sugarcane, total  acreage of land used to produced the sugarcane crop, the  level of dependence on sugarcane as a major source of  income, profit received per acre from the sale of sugarcane  and the interactions among these variables explained 83% of  the variation in the adoption of the good agricultural  practices.   
This study will have practical significance  as major stakeholders, including government and private  agencies, can use the results to develop programmes that  will increase the level of adoption to these practices, by  paying particular attention to the significant variables.  The methodology can be applied to other areas within the  sugarcane industry locally as well as regionally.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/187833},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.187833},
}