Megersa Nugusa

Determinants of Wheat Technology Adoption Megersa Nugusa

Wheat row planting has been seen as good agronomic technology for increasing wheat yield in Ethiopia. The promotion and scaling-up of wheat row planting is one of the major agricultural extension activities on farm technology adoption in the country. The government of Ethiopia has been implementing growth and transformation plan in order to boost the national economy. Agricultural production has been planned to have enormous contribution to overcome the problem of food security, shortage of export earnings, and provision of employment creating incomes and improving the livelihood of the population. Having these facts, participating and implementing a sustainable and knowledge based utilization of row planting technologies are critical to enhance growth and productivity in general and particularly agriculture is one of the focusing areas. The study provides new estimates of the determinants of wheat technology adoption and its impact on wheat yield of smallholder farmers in Horo Woreda of Horo Guduru Wollega Zone.