Muluneh Woldetsadick (PhD)Amsalu Chekol2024-12-302024-12-302024-08-01https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4041Assessing how small-scale irrigation affects agricultural productivity is the study's primary objective. In this survey, a mixed research technique used to utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods was employed. In addition, the study has utilized a descriptive research design in order to accomplish the aforementioned goal. Questionnaires were used to gather socioeconomic data from 286 randomly selected sample households in the sample kebele, including both irrigation users and non-users. Additional data also obtained from secondary sources, KII, FGD, and firsthand observations. Statistical methods for descriptive and inferential analysis were applied in order to arrange, examine, and present the dada. This study, which examined the effects of SSI production, produced some significant findings, including the fact that irrigation users and non-users differ significantly in terms of income, asset ownership, the security of food crop production, and living conditions. High rates of extension service delivery, non-farm income, and market and credit and training accessibilities, and farming technology availability have all been demonstrated to be critical elements of the area's irrigation farming determinants. The government also encouraged high productivity and SSI output. Permanent trees that have spread over a significant percentage of the area probably reduce the quantity of irrigable land that each household owns. The study found that irrigation farming is more important for agricultural expansion than family labor force, families clearly differ in their economic and food security position, and there is a lack of family labor force. According to the inquiry, the area currently covered in trees should be converted to irrigation farms in order to boost food crop output as well as household income, asset holding, and standard of living. In order to protect food crops' failure, revenue, and assets and to improve their quality of life overall, it is also imperative that actions be taken to change the way some families see and understand irrigation farming. A number of households ought to be granted credit to operate irrigation farming by lowering collateral requirements and devising efficient means of obtaining the loan. Keywords: Contribution, small scale irrigation, agricultural production, productivity, irrigation users, non-users, Banja districten-USContributionsmall scale irrigationagricultural productionproductivityirrigation usersnon-usersBanja districtThesis