Smallholder Farmers‘ Adoption of Climate Smart Cattle Production Practices: Status and Determinants in Waliso Woreda, Southwest Shoa Zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia
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2018-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Cattle production plays an important role in Ethiopian economy and Waliso Woreda is a potential area for dairy and beef cattle farming. But due to human population pressure and menace of climate variability the sector faced many challenges. The adoption of climate smart cattle production practices is considered to be an innovative solution to the challenges. This study is aimed to identify the status of adoption and analyze the determining factors and challenges in adopting Climate Smart cattle production practices in the last ten years in Waliso Woreda, Southwest Shoa of Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia. Three-staged mixed sampling techniques were used to select the targeted area and sample household respondents. A total of 83 (17 are Female headed) households were selected using systematic simple random sampling method and household survey was conduct with pre-tested structured questionnaire. Key Informant Interviews and Focus Group Discussions were also undertaken to complement the survey data. Various descriptive and inferential statistic techniques were applied to analyze the collected survey data. Multinomial logistic (MNL) regression model was used to analyze the determining factors of adoption practices. All respondents adopted at least two Climate Smart cattle production practices. The widely adopted practices are feed conservation (90.4%) and manure management (89.2%) while the least adopted one is bio-gas generation (12%). Most of the respondents (44) are categorized under medium adoption level. Out of thirteen targeted determining factors in the study area three of them (family size, household head age and farmer to farmer extension contact) are statistically significant at 0.05 level, two of them (land access and access to credit services) are significant at 0.1 level and one of them (education) is significant at 0.01 level in relation to adoption of the practices at different categories with different coefficients. It could be concluded that cattle farmers having higher educational level and productive family size, access to credit service, access to landholding, good farmer to farmer extension contact and middle adulthood age are more likely to adopt Climate Smart cattle production practices. Finally, it can be recommended that this socio-economic factors influencing adoption of Climate Smart cattle production practices is better to be taken into consideration while accelerating the face of technology adoption under similar farming system spectrum by all concerned stakeholders in synergy.