Abstract
Renewable energy technologies are the best option for rural peoples until hydroelectric power is well disseminated in the country of Ethiopia where critical energy access and supply problems exist with a poorly ventilated cooking places. The current study examined the factors determining households’ decision to adopt renewable energy technologies and energy source choices in Boset District. A two-stage stratified random sampling was employed to draw a sample of 210 respondents. Binary logit model has revealed that age, family size, education, income, number of livestock owned, landholding size, and training were significant to adopt technologies. On the other hand, multinomial model has indicated that age, family size, landholding size, income, livestock ownership, education, and training have significant role in the modern and mixed energy choices vis-à-vis traditional energy. The study has suggested that continued training and education are required to enhance households’ awareness concerning renewable energy sources.
Highlights
The GlobalizationIn the modern world, the telecommunications and global economic freedom have changed the landscape of people’s movements across the borders and world regions (Arnett, 2002)
Their characteristics are described as below: Below poverty line: In lowland districts, 62.92% respondents were below poverty line (BPL) category, whereas 74.58% were in BPL category in upland belt
Binary logistic model results: Out of the total of ten (10) explanatory variables included into the model, seven (7) were found to determine the renewable energy adoption decision of sample households (Table 4)
Summary
The GlobalizationIn the modern world, the telecommunications and global economic freedom have changed the landscape of people’s movements across the borders and world regions (Arnett, 2002). Plant breeders across several research institutes are relentlessly engaged in developing new rice varieties, which primarily focus on yield improvement. Though with a ‘push’ extension mechanism those varieties are adopted by farmers, to some extent, in a short run, but not accepted in the long run Because of this very reason, those newly developed varieties soon become redundant in the seed system of the state and farmers hardly get the varieties of their choice. This scenario inefficiently utilizes resources at breeding program and jeopardizes state’s ambition to attain food security through varietal replacement. This is more relevant in context of Odisha where participation of farmers in plant breeding program is largely negligible
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