Critical factors influencing biotech corn adoption of farmers in the Philippines in relation with the 2015 GMO Supreme Court ban

This study investigated 21 factors influencing biotech corn adoption of 111 corn farmers in Pampanga, Philippines, in relation with the 2015 GMO Supreme Court ban. Results of the statistical tests using ordinal logistic regression and thematic analyses showed that four factors were prioritized by the farmers over the rest of the available influential factors regarding their crop adoption decision making process. 'Satisfaction in planting biotech corn' ranked first among the four identified factors relative to the sampled farmers, followed by 'knowledge about the ban on planting biotech corn and Bt eggplant', then by 'knowledge about biotech corn', and lastly personal experiences in planting biotech corn'. The study also demonstrated how the farmers' sources of information (external and internal) can be factored into their entire decision making process. Data generated from this study can be directly utilized by policy makers and agriculturists to increase the awareness of non-biotech farmers to emerging technologies such as biotech corn and other biotech crops.