Table 4 Social impacts of laser-land-leveling technology
From: The impact assessment of technologies diffusion: a mixed methods analysis
Variables | Positive impact | No impact | Mean rank | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
High | Medium | Low | |||||||
Percent | Frequency | ||||||||
Percent | Frequency | Percent | Frequency | Percent | Frequency | ||||
Increasing positive competition for more production | 60.3 | 226 | 33.1 | 124 | 3.2 | 12 | 2.1 | 8 | 2.53 |
Sense of belonging to village (place attachment) | 65.6 | 246 | 20.8 | 78 | 4.8 | 18 | 7.5 | 28 | 2.46 |
Taking responsibility for improving villages status | 59.5 | 223 | 27.5 | 103 | 7.5 | 28 | 4.5 | 17 | 2.43 |
Interest in spending most time in village | 58.4 | 219 | 27.7 | 104 | 5.1 | 19 | 7.7 | 29 | 2.38 |
Interest in living in villages in the future | 58.7 | 220 | 25.3 | 95 | 7.5 | 28 | 7.2 | 27 | 2.37 |
Interest in farming | 41.2 | 158 | 51.7 | 194 | 4.3 | 16 | 1.1 | 4 | 2.36 |
Number of seasonal agricultural labor | 47.2 | 177 | 33.9 | 127 | 9.3 | 35 | 8.8 | 33 | 2.20 |
Number of family workforce | 36.5 | 137 | 36.0 | 135 | 10.4 | 39 | 16.0 | 60 | 1.94 |
Employment opportunities | 37.1 | 139 | 30.7 | 115 | 12.0 | 45 | 19.5 | 73 | 1.86 |
Immigration from rural areas to urban areas | 38.7 | 145 | 29.6 | 111 | 8.0 | 30 | 22.4 | 84 | 1.85 |
Immigrants returns | 26.1 | 98 | 25.1 | 94 | 11.5 | 43 | 36.3 | 136 | 1.41 |