Yohannes Kebede
Adoption of new technologies in Ethiopian agriculture: The case of Tegulet-Bulga district Shoa province
abstract adoption agricultural production technologies developing countries influenced wide range economic social factors well physical technical aspects farming risk attitude farmers important understand role factors ensure development appropriate technologies design successful development projects study examines impact factors adoption singleox fertilizer pesticide technologies part postdrought recovery project teguletbulga district ethiopia models evaluate probability adoption specified respective technologies estimated using logit maximum likelihood procedure results indicate significant variable affecting probability adoption three technologies farm size impact negative singleox technology positive fertilizer pesticide use economic factors income wealth debt generally exhibit statistically significant influence adoption singleox pesticide technologies family size access outside information education experience effect socioeconomic factors adoption fertilizer pesticide technologies greater area access outside information offfarm activities ankober selfcontained area seladengay impact degree risk aversion farmers found significant negative singleox technology areas fertilizer pesticide technologies one area predicted probabilities technology adoption average farmer found increase dramatically level education access exposure outside information