Abstract:
The study was conducted to identify determinants of Adoption of Malt Barely Technology by Small Holder Farmers in Dire Enchini District. Both probability and non-probability sampling methods were employed. To achieve the objectives of the study primary data was collected using semi-structured questionnaire through survey schedule. Both descriptive and econometrics analysis were employed. To analysis the level of malt barley adoption and challenges associated with the technologies, descriptive statistics was employed. On the other hand, to examine determinants of adoption of malt barely technology by smallholder farmers’ Logistic regression was employed. Based on the finding of the study, malt barley adoption is unevenly distributed across socioeconomic status; particularly, differences in households’ income (households of lower income), education and farm size were the key gaps among households of the study area. The results from the descriptive analysis indicated that about 53.84% of rural households of the study area were non-adopter of malt barley. Furthermore, the Logistic regression result revealed that education of the household head, sex being male, access to extension services, farm size, oxen and other livestock possession were significantly and positively related to adoption of malt barley technology; while age of the household head had a significant negative influence on adoption of malt barley technology. Based on the finding the study recommended that expansion and intensification combination of interventions aim at enhancing different opportunity such as establishing a continuing education mechanism to increase the adoption of malt barley technology for the community and provision of awareness formation on the technology should also be emphasized in the study area
