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Abstract
The increasing scarcity of biomass and the increment of the number of people
who use biomass, particularly firewood, threaten the capability of the country
even to maintain the already existing low income and living standard of the
people. Therefore, the need for adopting improved “Mirt” stove technology not
only enables the households to use fuel efficiently, but it will enable them to
curb the problems caused by using traditional and open fire stoves as well as
biomass energy related problems. It can also mitigate the impacts on the
users’ health, the overall environment and natural resources brought by using
those traditional and open fire stoves.
With two estimated equations, that is information and adoption equation. This
study result reveals that improvement in socio economic conditions of the
people have positive impact on information acquisition and access in urban
and rural households. Moreover, the result supports the “energy Ladder”
hypothesis as theoretical and functional useful framework to explain the fuel
use and improved technology adoption in the study area. The findings also
reveal that socio-economic improvement have direct and significant impact on
adoption decision. This finding also reinforces the role of government and
non-government organizations to play a major role in information diffusion
and to enhance the adoption decision of the people to protect the country’s
natural resources and to resolve environmental problems that arise due to
excessive utilization of biomass resources.