Analysis of Determinants of Adoption and Use Intensity of Organic Fertilizer in Ejere District, West Shoa, Oromia, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Atnafu, Gebremeskel (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Milkessa, Dejene Robi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-09T12:03:49Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-04T10:28:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-09T12:03:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-04T10:28:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-10 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The main objective of this study is to investigate the determinants of Adoption and use intensity of Organic Fertilizer in Ejere District, West Shoa, Oromia, Ethiopia. Primary cross-sectional data was collected from systematically selected 53 adopters and 151 non- adopters of organic fertilizer. The study employed probit model and the analysis was made using Cragg’s double hurdle. The empirical Results revealed that age of household negatively influenced decision to adopt organic fertilizer while livestock numbers, extension contacts, access to information media, membership to farmer based organizations, farm experience and farm income positively influenced the decision to adopt organic fertilizer. However, the study found out that gender, household head education, and distance to near market have statistically insignificant impact on adoption of organic fertilizer. In addition, this study found that being single, divorced or widowed significantly decreases the adoption of organic fertilizer while getting married has opposite impact. What’s more, farm size and membership to farmer groups influenced intensity of adoption positively while farm income and application frequency influenced use intensity of organic fertilizer negatively. This study also has an important policy implication. The findings of this study imply that appropriate and adequate extension services have to be provided in line with current agricultural development policies of the country. The government body of the district should encourage entrepreneurs to invest in organic fertilizer processing plants. The government should assign skilled and disciplined agricultural extension workers and must closely follow the performance the assigned extension workers to ensure that the farmers get the expected services. The policy makers should target at enabling farmers to have access to information media such as radio, and encouraging farmers’ group formation and membership to such organizations. Improving farmer access to credit facilities needs to be enhanced. The national government along with local government should investment on the educational sector, expanding of infrastructural facilities, creating market activities, and building institutions. The government should encourage farmers to rear animals under intensive livestock management systems that support more livestock units per unit of land for provision of manure. This study would like to invite researchers to conduct more investigation on farmers’ perception towards organic fertilizer and income and welfare impact of using organic fertilizer in the study area. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/25039 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | A.A.U | en_US |
| dc.subject | Adoption, use intensity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Double hurdle | en_US |
| dc.subject | Ejere district | en_US |
| dc.title | Analysis of Determinants of Adoption and Use Intensity of Organic Fertilizer in Ejere District, West Shoa, Oromia, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |