AgTech
Research Paper
December 2025
22pages
Digital Adoption Failure in Agricultural Enterprise Software
An analysis of why agricultural enterprise software deployments fail at rates exceeding 60% in emerging markets, with a framework for identifying the structural conditions that predict successful adoption.
Key Findings
0162% of agricultural SaaS deployments in MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa fail within 24 months
02Failure correlates more strongly with change management gaps than with software capability
03Operations with existing data culture adopt 3.4× faster than those without
04The cost of failed deployment averages $340K including lost productivity and re-implementation