July 10, 2022 Journal article Open Access

Mesele Belay Zegeye; Abebaw Hailu Fikrie; Anteneh Bizualem Asefa

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  "description": "<p>Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops cultivated in wide range<br>\nof agro-ecologies in Ethiopia. But, its productivity has remained low. Hence, this<br>\nstudy intends to examine the impact of agricultural technology adoption on wheat<br>\nproductivity in north Shewa zone of the Amhara region, Ethiopia. The analysis is<br>\nbased on household level data covering 693 households collected in 2020.<br>\nMultinomial logit model (MNL) and multinomial endogenous switching regression<br>\n(MESR) models are used for analysis. The results reveal that agricultural technology<br>\nadoptions are affected by the education level of the household head, off-farm<br>\nemployment, tropical livestock, access to credit, household saving, extension visit,<br>\nand distance from the market. In addition, the study shows that the adoption of<br>\nfertilizer and/or improved seed increases wheat productivity significantly.<br>\nFurthermore, the adoption of a combined fertilizer and improved seed provides<br>\nhigher productivity than the adoption of single technologies. Therefore, this study<br>\nrecommends that government and other stakeholders should have to work in<br>\ncollaboration with rural farmers to increase rural technology generation; dissemination<br>\nand adoption interventions to improve wheat productivity in the study area.</p>", 
  "license": "http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by", 
  "creator": [
    {
      "affiliation": "Woldia University", 
      "@id": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8887-177X", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Mesele Belay Zegeye"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "Debre Berhan University", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Abebaw Hailu Fikrie"
    }, 
    {
      "affiliation": "Debre Berhan University", 
      "@type": "Person", 
      "name": "Anteneh Bizualem Asefa"
    }
  ], 
  "headline": "Impact of agricultural technology adoption on wheat productivity: Evidence from North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia", 
  "image": "https://zenodo.org/static/img/logos/zenodo-gradient-round.svg", 
  "datePublished": "2022-07-10", 
  "url": "https://nadre.ethernet.edu.et/record/13450", 
  "keywords": [], 
  "@context": "https://schema.org/", 
  "identifier": "https://doi.org/10.20372/nadre:13450", 
  "@id": "https://doi.org/10.20372/nadre:13450", 
  "@type": "ScholarlyArticle", 
  "name": "Impact of agricultural technology adoption on wheat productivity: Evidence from North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia"
}