“…Numerous studies have attempted to identify, on the demand side, the sociodemographic and attitudinal characteristics that positively influence consumers' use of social networks (Hilverda, Kuttschreuter, & Giebels, 2017;Karoui et al, 2015), and on the supply side, the factors that explain social network adoption for business purposes (Goldfarb, & Prince, 2008;Kim, and Jee, 2007;Talib, Rahman, & Qureshi, 2011 Ananda, Hernández, and Lamberti, 2016 drew attention to the scarcity of scholarly research that has focused on analyzing efficiency in connection with the use of social media, and the strategies developed for this purpose, particularly in the agri-food sector (Lockshin, & Corsi, 2012). The present study makes a contribution to filling this gap in the literature.…”