October 10, 2019 Thesis Open Access

TARIKU HORDOFA

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  <dc:creator>TARIKU HORDOFA</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2019-10-10</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Daniel Masresha (phd)

Ethiopia is the number one in terms of livestock population in Africa. Contrarily, the production of the country’s livestock sub-sector is much below the productivity level realized in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Poor genetic performance, feed shortage, and poor veterinary services have characterized the sector. These in turn have resulted in low productivity of the sub-sector. According to various theoretical and empirical studies, a wide range of economic, social and institutional factors influence adoption of agricultural technologies among farmers. A better understanding of the role irrelevant affecting farmers’ decision on technology adoption would then help to design relevant policies and procedures that could fasten the development and diffusion of more appropriate technologies. With the purpose of contributing towards this end and lack of such study in the area, this investigation was undertaken in two selected woredas of West Wollega zone of Oromia National Regional State in Gendji and Lalo Asabi district. Secondary data were obtained from various relevant documents, while primary data were collected from farm households. A multi-stage random sampling procedure was used to draw sample farm households. The selection of kebeles using a simple random sampling method was followed by the selection of 138 farm households employing proportion to size random sampling procedure. The required data were collected through personal interviews, based on a structured questionnaire. Descriptive analysis was used to examine and understand the socioeconomic situation of sample farmers. The survey result has revealed that 28.98% of the sample farmers adopted crossbred dairy cows during study year. T-test and Chi-square test were used to examine statistical differences between adopters and non-adopters for different continuous and dummy variables, respectively. Logit model was used to identify factors affecting farm households’ adoption decision of crossbred dairy cows. Among twelve explanatory variables included in the estimated logit model, nine of them were found to be significantly related to farm households’ adoption decision of the technology. Formal education, family size, access to credit, access to bull, access to AI, heifer supply, household position in institutional organization and distance from market service were found to be significant variables in the adoption decision of crossbred dairy cows. Therefore, attention should be given to major factors that affect crossbred dairy technology adoption by livestock and fishery development office and NGOs to increase production and productivity of the sector. key words:-Adoption, Adoption rate, Dairy</dc:description>
  <dc:identifier>https://zenodo.org/record/15212</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>10.20372/nadre:15212</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>oai:zenodo.org:15212</dc:identifier>
  <dc:relation>doi:10.20372/nadre:15211</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>url:https://nadre.ethernet.edu.et/communities/20-25</dc:relation>
  <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
  <dc:rights>http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/odc-by</dc:rights>
  <dc:title>ADOPTION OF CROSSBRED DAIRY COWS IN GENDJI AND  LALO ASABI DISTRICTS, WEST WOLLEGA ZONE.</dc:title>
  <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis</dc:type>
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