0 a person or company that starts to use a new product or service:
While large firms may be the most visible adopters of IT and e-commerce, smaller companies also face pressure to adopt these technologies.
For the maize yield and net returns equations, the estimated coefficients of the farm size variables were statistically different between the adopters and non-adopters.
Which farmers and which regions will be the early adopters of the new technology in developing countries?
Evidence was found, however, to suggest that full adopters of the technology had more profitable farms than partial adopters.
Interestingly non-adopters reported a much greater (but not statistically significant) level of income from non-cotton crops compared to adopters.
The adventurous have historically been early adopters, adapters and inventors.
Among 12 early adopters as of the end of 1980, eight were led by progressive governors.
In contrast, in weaker social settings, adopters can be expected to influence their peers to a lesser degree.
At the time of the survey, however, 27 per cent of adopters had completely abandoned t he conservation practices.
