Analysis of Factors Influencing Adoption of Quncho Tef: The Case of Wayu Tuqa District

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze factors influencing adoption of Quncho tef in the case of Wayu Tuqa District. The primary sources of data were obtained from sample farmers and the secondary data from different sources were used. Both Probability and non probability sampling technique were employed to conduct the study, stratified random sampling procedure was employed for the selection of sample Peasant Association  and random sampling was used to select 355 sample households from which 125 were adopters. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and econometric model, which is logit model, were used to state the influence of variables. Descriptive statistics revealed that aged farmers were less adopter than younger. Farmers with better education level show willingness to take new ideas than less educated and farmers having higher livestock were better adopter than the lower livestock holders and also farmers nearest to market and high frequency of extension service were better adopter than the farmers who were not. Econometric result shows that distance from household residence to market center and age of the household were found to influence adoption negatively, family labor in-terms of man equivalent and participation of farmers in agricultural trainings were found to affect adoption positively, while farmers owning the oxen were found to influence negatively. Also education level of the respondents, livestock holding in-terms of tropical livestock unit, farmer’s ability of meeting the family food consumption, frequency of extension contact was found to affect adoption of Quncho tef positively.

Keywords: Adoption, Quncho tef, Wayu Tuqa District