Determinants of Improved Rice Varieties Adoption in Fogera District of Ethiopia

Abstract

The Ethiopian agriculture is characterized by the use of inadequate production technologies that in a variable climate produces important fluctuations in crop yields, insecurities. Consequently, the study has focused to analyze factors affecting adoption of rice improved varieties in Fogera district of Ethiopia. It particularly focused on the determinants of improved varieties. For this study purpose 151 households were randomly drawn from three randomly selected Kebeles in probability proportional to size method. The demographic and socio economic factors that determine the participation in improved varieties were households labor availability, education level of the household head, land holding, distance to the nearest village market, proximity to the main market, distance to access agricultural extension, access to the source of rice seeds, access to new cultivars of rice and off finding ways to strengthen smallholder access to inputs, technology, and information, and improving the incentives for their use and adoption, all within highly heterogeneous agro ecologies is very important.

Soya bean Adoption: A Double-hurdle Approach for Chewaka and Gobusayo Districts of Oromia Region, Ethiopia

“…Each additional year of education of the household head increases the probability adoption and the proportion of land allocated for improved soya bean varieties by 4% and 11.2% respectively. This is consistent with the research results of Hassen et al (2012), Moti et al (2013 and Afework and Lemma (2015) who stated that education, affect adoption of improved technologies positively. Training (TRAINING): Training was positively related to adoption and intensity of adoption of improved soya bean varieties at 1% level of significance.…”

“…Educated farmers may also be more aware of the benefits of modern technologies and may have a greater ability to learn new information hence easily adopt new technologies. Hence, educational level of the household head has a positive effect on the status, intensity and speed of technology adoption (Hassen et al, 2012;Afework and Lemma, 2015). Education thus was expected to have a positive effect on the decision to adopt and intensity of adoption of improved soya bean varieties.…”

“…Better access to the market can influence the use of output and input markets, and the availability of information. It is expected that farmers living near the market would easily access market for their farm produce hence readily adopt and intensively use new technology (Afework and Lemma 2015;Hassen et al, 2012). Therefore, it is hypothesized that market distance is inversely related to adoption and intensity adoption of soya bean improved soya bean varieties.…”

Assessment of Socio-Economic and Agronomic Characteristics Influencing Variety Choice in Rice Based Farming System in Fogera- Ethiopia

“…There was a study conducted so far in the district fertilizer was not applied for rice production. However, due to yield reductions of their respective plot, farmers were starting application of fertilizer in recent years (Hagos 2014). In this study confirmed similarly there was no application of fertilizer ten years ago but all farmers use fertilizer in the present.…”

The Identification of Rice Varieties Used in Central Sulawesi

“…With higher levels of farmer education, it is expected that farmers will likely to use high quality seeds. [5], [6], [7] have found that the education of the farmer household is related to the participation of farmers in using improved varieties. [6] found the positive correlation between education and the participation of farmers in improved seed technology.…”