ChileanJAR

Upon completion of the first decade of research on diffusion and adoption of agricultural innovations which analyze sociological and managerial variables, this paper reviews some of the main findings obtained by a selected group of studies conducted in Chile since the late 1960's.
Available information allows the detection of some socio-demographic, economic and organizational factors which appear to facilitate or hamper technological transference in agriculture. Although there is still lack of more comprehensive research covering simultaneously a large population of producers in a wider geographical area with higher differentiation in their crop systems, the studies reviewed here provide some empirically valid information which couldo be very helpful to new research on adoption of new practices as well as to technical diffusion and rural extesion programs.