An agricultural research organisation categorised farmers in village X according to the rate of adoption of new ideas and came up with the following: Innova...

An agricultural research organisation categorised farmers in village X according to the rate of adoption of new ideas and came up with the following: Innovators 10, Early adopters 15, Late adopters 70, Never adopters 25

(a) Calculate the percentage of early adopters and state the implication of this percentage on the extension system.

(b) Suggest four ways of encouraging the innovators.

(c) State four possible reasons for the high number of late adopters.

(d) State two merits of the print media as a channel for agricultural extension.