Willingness and Influencing Factors of Pig Farmers to Adopt Internet of Things Technology in Food Traceability

Ruiyu Sun, Siyao Zhang, Tianyu Wang, Jiarui Hu, Junhu Ruan and Junyong Ruan
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Ruiyu Sun: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Siyao Zhang: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Tianyu Wang: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Jiarui Hu: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Junhu Ruan: College of Economics and Management, Northwest A&F University, Xianyang 712100, China
Junyong Ruan: Medical Engineering Department, Qingdao Special Servicemen Recuperation Center of PLA Navy, Qingdao 266071, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 16, 1-19

Abstract: The Internet of Things technology (IoT) in food traceability provides new ideas to solve the problem of smart production and offers new ideas for the formation of safe and high-quality markets for meat products. However, scholars have studied the combination of blockchain and IoT technology. There is a lack of research on the combination of IoT and food traceability technology. Moreover, previous studies focused on the application of IoT traceability technology, taking farmers’ adoption willingness as an exogenous variable while ignoring its endogeneity. Therefore, it is essential to study farmers’ willingness to adopt IoT traceability technology and find the factors that influence farmers’ adoption intention. Based on survey data from 264 pig farmers in Shaanxi Province, this paper discussed the factors which influence pig farmers’ adoption of the technology by using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). The results showed that farmers’ adoption intention was influenced by a combination of farmers’ performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence, personal innovation, and perceived risk. Personal innovation played a mediating role in effort expectancy and adoption willingness and perceived risk played a moderating role in personal innovation and adoption willingness.

Keywords: pig farmers; adoption willingness of IoT traceability technology; Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology; Latent Moderate Structural Equations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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