Tekle Bobo

Review on Factors Affecting the Adoption of New Agricultural and Soil Conservation Technologies in Ethiopia

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Produktbeschreibung

Academic Paper from the year 2021 in the subject Economy - Environment economics, , language: English, abstract: The paper specifically aims to review factors affecting adoption of agricultural and soil water conservation Technologies in Ethiopia with objective of assessing factors affecting adoption of agricultural and soil conservation technologies. Development programs in Ethiopia over the past two decades have included several new technologies. Among the most recently introduced are improved seed, pesticides, improved on farm storage techniques, methods of small scale irrigation and fertilizer usage and different scheme soil water conservation practices. However, there has not been a wide-spread provision and adoption of these technologies in Ethiopia. Various socioeconomic factors and the degree of risk aversion may be the causes of adoption rates. Low adoption of agricultural technology country results low farm productivity and high incidence of poverty and food insecurity in Ethiopia. From the review factors affecting adoption of new agricultural technology and soil water conservation is categorized under Demographic, socioeconomic and Institutional variables. The variables significantly affect the adoption of agricultural new and soil conservation technologies in farmers specific are age, education level, family size, farm size, extension service provision and credit access. To solve problems of inadequate use of production technologies, decision makers have pursued a range of policies and strategies to boost agricultural production and productivity by understanding adoption status and factors affecting adoption of agricultural and soil water conservation technologies crucial issues in Ethiopia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: GRIN Verlag
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 28
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 148mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 56g
• ISBN-13: 9783346473240
• ISBN-10: 3346473244
• Artikelnr.: 62720014

Autorenporträt

The author, Tekle Bobo Tolassa was born on 30 December 1990 from his father Bobo Tolassa and mother Melkitu Nemera in a village called Jirata in Diga District of East Wolega zone in Oromia, Ethiopia. He attended his elementary education from 1998 to 2005 at Muleta Elementary School and Junior Secondary School at Ifa Senior Secondary School from 2006-2007. Thereafter, he joined Nekemte Comprehensive Preparatory School and completed Preparatory education in 2009. After successfully passed the Ethiopian Higher Education Entrance Qualification Examination, he joined Haramaya University in 2010 and graduated in June 2012 with Bachelor of Science Degree in Statistics. After graduation, he was employed by Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA) at Nekemte branch office as junior data collector in October 2013. After serving for six months, the author left CSA and was employed by Oromia Agricultural Research Institute (OARI) at Bore Agricultural Research Center (BOARC) as a Junior Researcher in June 2013. He worked in Crops Technology process as Biometrician/Statistician until he joined the School of Postgraduate Studies of Haramaya University in October 2018 to pursue his study leading to MSc degree in Statistics, Econometrics specialization. Now Mr. Tekle Bobo successfully completed his MSc programs and hold associated researcher position. Now Mr. Tekle bobo is serving Bore Agricultural Research Center on the socioeconomic Research team as Associated Researcher.