FACTORSAFFECTINGADOPTIONOFWHEATROW PLANTING TECHNOLOGYTHECASEOFHAGEREMARIAMNAKESEMWOREDA, NORTHSHEWAZONE,AMHARAREGION,ETHIOPIA

Abstract

ThisstudywasconductedinNorthshewa Zone,northern Ethiopia.Itsaim wastofind outthestatusoftoassessfactorsaffectingadoptionofuseofrowplantingtechnology onwheatproduction.Thestudyappliedthree-stagesamplingtechniques,i.e.purposively, stratifiedandrandom samplingtechniques.Inordertoachievetheseobjectives,147rural householdswereselectedrandomlyfollowingprobabilityproportionaltosamplesize technique. Both primaryand secondarydata were used.The data were analyzed byusing descriptive statistics like mean,standard deviation,percentages and frequency distribution.Inferentialstatisticssuchast-testandchi-square(2)testswerealsoused todescribecharacteristicsofadopterandnonadopterhouseholds.Thesurveyresult showsthatabout54.42%and45.58%ofsamplerespondentswerefoundtobeadopter andnonadopterofwheatrowplantingtechnologyrespectively. Thestudyemployedlogisticregressionmodeltoanalyzeandfindoutthestatusofto assessfactorsaffectingadoptionofuseofrowplantingtechnologyonwheatproduction inthestudyarea.And,accordingtotheeconometricresult,outof13explanatory variablesfivewerefoundtohavesignificant.ThesewereAgeofthehouseholdhead, cultivatedfarm size,oxenownership,SoiltypeandFamilysizewhiletheremaining 8(eight) explanatoryvariablesnamely;sexofthehousehold,farmingexperience, educationallevel,extension contact,participation in training,credituse,fertilizer applicationanddistancetothemarket