Adoption of drone technology among paddy farmers in Perlis and Kedah

Today, a few issues that slow drone technology adoption among paddy farmers are not considered. Fewer paddy farmers adopted drone technology due to a lack of enthusiasm and understanding about using drones including farmers' age. Therefore, this study aims to determine the adoption of drone technology among paddy farmers in Perlis and Kedah. The independent variables in this study were facilitating condition, social influence, performance expectancy, and effort expectancy. Meanwhile, the dependent variable has been the adoption of drone technology. This study was used a quantitative research design, and the questionnaire was constructed based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). This study has been used simple random sampling to choose 150 paddy farmers that have been registered under Muda Agricultural Development Authority (MADA). The data was analysed using SPSS version 26.0, including reliability tests, descriptive, correlation, and t-test analysis. This study showed a medium mean score for all the variables. Then, the correlation analysis results presented a significant relationship between facilitating conditions, social influence, performance expectancy, and effort expectancy on the adoption of drone technology among paddy farmers in Perlis and Kedah. Besides that, for t-test results showed an insignificant difference between paddy farmers' age towards the adoption of drone technology in Perlis and Kedah. Hopefully, this study can increase the adoption of drone technology among paddy farmers, especially in Perlis and Kedah. Even though it is difficult to adapt technology to agricultural activities, it is worth it since the productivity and income of the farmers can be increased.