Abstract
The study was conducted in Dale Sadi district Kelem Wolega Zoneof Oromia Regional State. Even if progresses have been seen through time, decision to use improved agricultural technology was found at its low level. Therefore, the study was initiated to identify factors affecting herbicides use decision by smallholder farmers. The typical data used was cross sectional data that were collected from 140 respondents. Primary data was collected by using semi-structured questionnaire and secondary data were collected from articles, journals and others. For analysis of data descriptive statistics such as mean, maximum, minimum and percentage were used and for econometric analysis double hurdle model was employed for analyzing primary data collected by survey questionnaire. The descriptive analysis revealed that 70.71% of farm households were user of herbicides while the remaining 29.29% were non user. The result from Econometric analysis revealed that, Sex of household head, education status, total livestock owned and access to credit service has influencing positively and significantly to decision to use and volume of herbicide applied to an hectare of farm land. Whereas, distance of farmers’ home from the nearest market influence volume of herbicides applied to hectare of cultivated land negatively and significantly. Therefore, concerning body should focus on promoting training, increasing existing access to credit service and improve market infrastructure that would enhances agricultural technology use to transform agricultural economy and enhance role of improved agricultural technology in economic development. Keywords: Decision to Use, Double Hurdle Model, Smallholder, Technology DOI: 10.7176/JESD/12-13-02 Publication date: July 31 st 2021
Highlights
Secondary data was collected from Dale Sadi Agricultural Office (DSAO) to get supplementary information related to use of herbicides, Central Statistics Agency (CSA) and Published literature such as books, journals and articles were reviewed
Result and Discussion Under this section descriptive and econometric analysis of data collected on determinants of decision to use herbicides were presented
The econometric result were presented by the marginal effects of explanatory variables showing the probability of use of herbicides by smallholder farmers associated with a one unit increase for continuous variables and being in the success category for dummy variables
Summary
Background of the Study Development in the agricultural sector has been changed effectively underlining use of modern technologies to increase food production. The use of herbicides is at increasing rate in the world for crop production and has being adopted in developing countries like Ethiopia due to shortage and costy of manual weeding and the need to an increase in crop production (Adhikari et al, 2020). Farmers mostly use herbicides and insecticides to control weed and insects respectively, and other disease in cereal crop production. Adhikari et al (2020) studied on decision to use herbicides in wheat production by farm household in Nepal, employing probit regression model revealed that education status of household head, farm size, migration and membership to cooperatives positively affect decision to use herbicides. Secondary data was collected from Dale Sadi Agricultural Office (DSAO) to get supplementary information related to use of herbicides, Central Statistics Agency (CSA) and Published literature such as books, journals and articles were reviewed
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