International Journal of Management and Economics Invention
Sri Lanka has made many interventions to promote ICT in Sri Lankan agriculture over the last coup... more Sri Lanka has made many interventions to promote ICT in Sri Lankan agriculture over the last couple of decades but those initiatives have not been able to make a significant impact. This study explored the present level of use of modern information sources by the Sri Lankan farmers and their perceptions. Data were collected interviewing 275 vegetable farmers using a structured questionnaire. The findings showed that a high percentage of farmers use mobile phones (87 percent) but smartphone usage is significantly low (8 percent) due to the high cost, low functional abilities, operational difficulties, and poor reception. The usage rates of mobile mediated agri-information systems (13 percent) and the internet (9.5 percent) for accessing agriculture information were reported as very low. It further revealed that the majority of farmers believed that mobile phones (60 percent) and mobile mediated agri-information systems (65 percent) could be useful to access the required information f...
The importance of sustainable agriculture has been widely recognized by the researchers and profe... more The importance of sustainable agriculture has been widely recognized by the researchers and professionals all over the world. Organic Agriculture per se is not merely a new concept to Sri Lanka. However, the rate of expansion of Organic Agriculture production in commercial scale is not adequate enough to cater the escalating market demand. There are number of reasons for the slow growth rate of Organic Agriculture production in the country. Entrepreneurship and economic success are important parameters to be monitored to promote Organic agriculture. Hence, the present study aimed at investigating the entrepreneurial behaviour and Business Success of the micro and small scale organic vegetable farmers in a selected district of Sri Lanka. Since the EB cannot be measured directly, ten constructs were deployed to measure it and those constructs were selected based on the previous research works. The other main variable of the study; Business Success, was determined measuring both financ...
The authors sought to assess the entrepreneurial behaviour of the organic vegetable farmers in th... more The authors sought to assess the entrepreneurial behaviour of the organic vegetable farmers in the Badulla District of Sri Lanka. The primary data were collected through use of a structured questionnaire that was used to interview 231 farmers. The study found that there are three main agribusiness models operating in the district. Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of the farmers fitted into three business models was measured following the method suggested by Covin and Slevin and by Lumpkin and Dess. The study revealed that the highest EO was exhibited by the Member Farmers of Organic Association (2.4 of 5) followed by the Contract Organic Farmers (2.24 of 5), and the lowest EO was exhibited by the Independent Organic Farmers (1.8 of 5). The analysis of variance revealed that the EO is significantly different across the three business models, and mean separation revealed that the Member Farmers’ of Organic Organizations model exhibited the highest EO followed by the Contract Farmers model and then the Independent Farmers’ model.
International Journal of Management and Economics Invention
Sri Lanka has made many interventions to promote ICT in Sri Lankan agriculture over the last coup... more Sri Lanka has made many interventions to promote ICT in Sri Lankan agriculture over the last couple of decades but those initiatives have not been able to make a significant impact. This study explored the present level of use of modern information sources by the Sri Lankan farmers and their perceptions. Data were collected interviewing 275 vegetable farmers using a structured questionnaire. The findings showed that a high percentage of farmers use mobile phones (87 percent) but smartphone usage is significantly low (8 percent) due to the high cost, low functional abilities, operational difficulties, and poor reception. The usage rates of mobile mediated agri-information systems (13 percent) and the internet (9.5 percent) for accessing agriculture information were reported as very low. It further revealed that the majority of farmers believed that mobile phones (60 percent) and mobile mediated agri-information systems (65 percent) could be useful to access the required information f...
The importance of sustainable agriculture has been widely recognized by the researchers and profe... more The importance of sustainable agriculture has been widely recognized by the researchers and professionals all over the world. Organic Agriculture per se is not merely a new concept to Sri Lanka. However, the rate of expansion of Organic Agriculture production in commercial scale is not adequate enough to cater the escalating market demand. There are number of reasons for the slow growth rate of Organic Agriculture production in the country. Entrepreneurship and economic success are important parameters to be monitored to promote Organic agriculture. Hence, the present study aimed at investigating the entrepreneurial behaviour and Business Success of the micro and small scale organic vegetable farmers in a selected district of Sri Lanka. Since the EB cannot be measured directly, ten constructs were deployed to measure it and those constructs were selected based on the previous research works. The other main variable of the study; Business Success, was determined measuring both financ...
The authors sought to assess the entrepreneurial behaviour of the organic vegetable farmers in th... more The authors sought to assess the entrepreneurial behaviour of the organic vegetable farmers in the Badulla District of Sri Lanka. The primary data were collected through use of a structured questionnaire that was used to interview 231 farmers. The study found that there are three main agribusiness models operating in the district. Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) of the farmers fitted into three business models was measured following the method suggested by Covin and Slevin and by Lumpkin and Dess. The study revealed that the highest EO was exhibited by the Member Farmers of Organic Association (2.4 of 5) followed by the Contract Organic Farmers (2.24 of 5), and the lowest EO was exhibited by the Independent Organic Farmers (1.8 of 5). The analysis of variance revealed that the EO is significantly different across the three business models, and mean separation revealed that the Member Farmers’ of Organic Organizations model exhibited the highest EO followed by the Contract Farmers model and then the Independent Farmers’ model.
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KEYWORDS entrepreneurial orientation, organic agribusiness models
KEYWORDS entrepreneurial orientation, organic agribusiness models