@article{KEBEDE:281181,
      recid = {281181},
      author = {KEBEDE, Degefu and KETEMA, Mengistu and DECHASSA, Nigussie  },
      title = {DISPARITY IN ADOPTION OF WHEAT PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY  PACKAGES IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA},
      journal = {Review of Agricultural and Applied Economics (RAAE)},
      address = {2017-11-01},
      number = {1340-2018-5164},
      month = {Nov},
      year = {2017},
      note = {doi: 10.15414/raae.2017.20.02.22-29   https://roaae.org/issue/review-of-agricultural-and-applied-economics-raae-vol-20-no-22017/?article=disparity-in-adoption-of-wheat-production-technology-packages-in-eastern-ethiopia},
      abstract = {Production of wheat by smallholder farmers in Ethiopia  contributes a significant share to the agricultural  production of the country. However, the actual productivity  of the crop has been far below its potential. Varied levels  of technology adoption are often observed among smallholder  farmers producing the crop. For enhanced dissemination of  technology packages and improving wheat productivity, it is  vital to elucidate socio-economic factors that are behind  disparity in technology adaption among smallholder farmers.  Therefore, this study was conducted to analyse the  socio-economic, institutional, and other pertinent  variables that determine the existing disparity observed  among smallholder farmers in terms of adopting wheat  production technology packages in Gurawa and Meta districts  of eastern Ethiopia. The study utilized survey data  collected from 124 randomly selected wheat households  producing wheat. For this purpose, an ordered logit model  was applied. The econometric results revealed that age of  the household head, membership in cooperative institutions,  and household annual income significantly and positively  explained the disparity observed in adoption of wheat  production technology packages. Conversely, gender of  household head (sex), farming experiences, number of plots  owned, and frequency of contacts with extension agents  explained the disparity significantly, but negatively. It  could be concluded that development practitioners,  planners, and policy makers should give due considerations  to the aforementioned socio-economic and institutional  factors when designing dissemination of wheat production  technology packages for adoption by farmers. },
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/281181},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.281181},
}