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Social Network Analysis of the Adoption of an Agricultural Innovation in a Village in Assiut Governorate

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Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension

Abstract

know about the network characteristics of the respondents' farmers inside an innovation adoption network, and to identify the relationship between their network characteristics and the time of adoption of this innovation. Data were collected from all farmers of one of the villages of Assiut governorate by questionnaire. The study used UCINET software to analyze and visualize the data. The results identified the farmers with the best network characteristics among farmers in the whole network. Social network analysis states that we can rely on them to convince the largest number of farmers to adopt the innovation very rapidly with the shortest links. Also it cleared up that there's a positive significance correlation between the time of adoption of the innovation and these variables: degree of reach, out-geodesic distances and efficiency of ego network. On the other hand, it came to clear that there's a negative significance correlation between the time of adoption of the innovation and these variables: number of directed ties, density of ego network, two-step reach and closeness centrality.

DOI

10.21608/ajas.2010.267975

Keywords

Geodesic Distances, Ego Networks, Brokerage, Central-ity

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Ahmed

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M.Saleh,

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Department of Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

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Mostafa

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H.Ghanem

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Department of Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

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Ahmed

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A.Ibrahim

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Department of Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

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Mohamed

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M.Abdel-Ghany

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Department of Rural Sociology & Agricultural Extension, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt.

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Volume

41

Article Issue

2

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37442

Issue Date

2010-05-01

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2010-06-01

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2010-05-01

Page Start

222

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238

Print ISSN

1110-0486

Online ISSN

2356-9840

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/article_267975.html

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62

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Assiut Journal of Agricultural Sciences

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https://ajas.journals.ekb.eg/

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Social Network Analysis of the Adoption of an Agricultural Innovation in a Village in Assiut Governorate

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22 Jan 2023