Factors Influencing the Perceptions of Smallholder Farmers towards Adoption of Digital Technologies in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
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attention; interest; desire; and action (AIDA) model; digital technologies; perceptive index; technology acceptance model (TAM);All these keywords.
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