Table 5 Economic 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 | ||
Net income | 43.5 | 163 | 40.3 | 151 | 11.2 | 42 | 4.3 | 16 | 2.23 |
Land price | 46.1 | 173 | 33.9 | 127 | 8.8 | 33 | 9.6 | 36 | 2.18 |
Investment rate for farmers | 40.8 | 153 | 39.2 | 147 | 10.1 | 38 | 8.8 | 33 | 2.13 |
Labor cost | 37.1 | 139 | 41.3 | 155 | 11.5 | 43 | 8.5 | 32 | 2.08 |
Number of working days | 38.1 | 143 | 40.3 | 151 | 12.3 | 46 | 8.5 | 32 | 2.08 |
Tillage cost | 37.3 | 140 | 40.3 | 151 | 9.6 | 36 | 11.7 | 44 | 2.04 |
Inputs cost | 31.7 | 139 | 40.8 | 153 | 10.4 | 39 | 10.9 | 41 | 2.04 |
Landscape attractiveness | 65.3 | 245 | 26.9 | 101 | 2.7 | 10 | 4.3 | 16 | 2.54 |