Resumen

PEREZ GUEL, Roque Onésimo; MARTINEZ BAUTISTA, Humberto; LOPEZ TORRES, Bey Jamelyd  y  RENDON MEDEL, Roberto. Estimation of the adoption of innovations in agriculture. Rev. Mex. Cienc. Agríc [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.spe15, pp.2909-2923. ISSN 2007-0934.

The adoption of innovations is related to the use of technology that allows you to create a productive potential and improve competitiveness. In agriculture, the adoption of the innovation has been attempted account in various ways, however, in most cases was made from simple innovations counts performed. This research proposes a method to estimate the level of adoption of innovations in agriculture. From the analysis of a package of 29 innovative practices promoted by the program sustainable modernization of traditional agriculture in the state of Guerrero, in 2013, an index is calculated by analyzing correlations tetrachoric and main components. The results indicate that an index with specific weights for each innovation better reflects the process of adoption of innovations since the problem of accounting in a simple way the number of innovations made by a producer is eliminated. The main conclusion is that the weighted index of agricultural innovations (IPIA) identifies different intervention strategies based on a more precise level of adoption of innovations to a specific producer estimate.

Palabras llave : level of innovation; main components; MasAgro; tetrachoric correlation.