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Adoption and Impact of Agricultural Technologies on Farm Income: Evidence from Southern Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
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The importance of agricultural technology in enhancing production and productivity can be realized when yield increasing technologies are widely been used and diffused. Standing from this logical ground, this paper aimed at identifying the determinants of agricultural technology adoption decision and examining the impact of adoption on farm income. Cross sectional data was collected through semi-structured questionnaire administered on 270 randomly selected smallholder farmers. Probit and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression models were employed. Consistent with the findings of previous studies, regression results showed that agricultural technology adoption decision of farm households has been determined by irrigation use, land ownership right security, credit access, distance to the nearest market, plot distance from the home stead, off-farm participation and tropical livestock unit. The regression result also revealed that agricultural technology adoption has a positive and significant effect on farm income by which adopters are better-offs than non-adopters.
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“This is further corroborated by Hailu, Kassa and Kibrom (2014) in their study in Ethiopia which established that distance to the nearest market was negatively related with adoption of both chemical fertilizer and high yielding varieties (HYVs) and statistically significant at 5% and 1% level of significance respectively.”
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- Hailu, B. K., Abrha, B. K., Weldegiorgis, K. A., Hailu, B. K., Abrha, B. K., & Weldegiorgis, K. A.
- Venue
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- Published
- 2014
- OpenAlex
- W2993631973
- Cited by
- 161
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- FWCI
- 6.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- ageconsearch.umn.edu
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- cc-by-nc-nd
- Locations
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Development and Management
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › General Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Keywords
- agricultural technology adoption, farm income, smallholder farmers, adoption factors, irrigation, land tenure security, access to credit, market access, off-farm employment, livestock units, Southern Tigray
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