A Study of the Factors Influencing Forest Farmers Information Technology Adoption

Information technology is one of the most important factors that have been impacting the development of forestry construction, with forest farmers playing an increasingly crucialrole in promotion of information technology. Survey data in this paper, collected from Yongan County and Youxi County in Fujian Province, usescombinedRough Set Theory (RST) andSupport Vector Machine (SVM), applied for reduction of influential factors of information technology adoption behavior of forestry farmers. The result shows factors, i.e.age, education, highest degree of the family, average annual income, forestland area, average annual income of forestland, status of fixed phone, average spending on mobile phone per month, status of cable TV and connection to the Internet, are of key influential in forestry farmers’ decision of information technology adoption. Keyword:Influential factors; information technology adoption; rough set theory; support vector machine