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    Factors Influencing Farmers' Adoption and Profitability of Climate-Smart Agricultural Technologies among Rice Farming Household: A Case Study of Fogera Woreda of Amhara Region, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2023-02) Belachew Getnet; Aseffa Seyoum (PhD)
    Rice is a nutritional staple food grown under flooded and submerged conditions introduced in Ethiopia to ensure food security. Because of unfavorable climate conditions, agricultural productivity and profitability are threatened. So, CSA technology has been introduced to address those challenges. This study tried to assess factors influencing farmers' adoption and profitability of CSA technologies among rice farming households of Fogera Woreda, Amhara Region. A cross-sectional study design was employed with both qualitative and quantitative data collection approaches. Household survey data were collected from randomly selected 376 farmers in 5 purposively selected kebeles while the qualitative data were collected by interviews with key informants. Out of 376 respondents, 36.2% of them maintain crop residue while 63.8% of them did not. Regarding compost, 37.8% of the total respondent was adopter whereas 62.2% did not. Likewise, 55.1% of the total respondent constructed soil bunds but the remaining 44.9% did not. The profitability of climate-smart rice production was estimated by net profit and gross margin analysis. The result revealed that CSA technology adopters earned more gross margin and net profit than non-adopter. Factors influencing smallholder rice farmers' adoption of CSA technologies were analyzed by the binary logistic regression model. The result showed that sex, age, road distance, family size, number of livestock owned, farm income, access to extension services, access to a mobile phone, and education significantly influence farmers' decision to adopt CSA technologies. Thus, the result of this study recommends that broadening awareness via accessing communication technologies, strengthening extension service based on identified skill gaps, improving infrastructural accessibility, and improving economic conditions of rice farmers by government and other stakeholders enhances the adoption of CSA technology.