Abstract
The objective of this review was to assess the factors affecting adoption and intensity of agricultural new technologies. The adoptions of agricultural technologies were highly influenced by socio-economic factors, institutional, location factors as well as agro-ecological factors and the characteristics of the farmers were those factors affecting the adoption and intensity of agricultural new technologies. Also the review was focused on the probability of adoption of crop, feed improvement technologies and artificial insemination. The other objective of the review was the impact of the technology adoption on the small holder farmers’ welfare.
Highlights
The objectives of this review is important to identify factors that influence the adoption of new improved agricultural and determine the extent to which the farmers are aware of the improved agricultural technologies, the influence of socio-economic characteristics of the farmers on adoption of improved agricultural and to identify the problems confronting farmers’ adoption of improved agricultural technologies and the impact of improved agricultural new technologies on small holder farmers in Ethiopia
Agricultural technology adoption is an essential strategy for increasing agricultural productivity, achieving food selfsufficiency and alleviating poverty and food insecurity among smallholder farmers in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, farmers have been adopting and using different agricultural technologies, the adoption rate of the technologies has not at good level when compared with another country
Summary
Agriculture is the provider of basic human need, nutrition is the world’s largest user of land, occupying more than one third of Earth’s terrestrial surface and using vast amounts of water. It affects our daily life in many ways, both directly and indirectly. Alemayehu Keba: Review on Adoption of Improved Agricultural Technologies in Ethiopia fertility, population growth, low uptake of external inputs, and climate disruption has resulted in a dramatic fall in per capita food production [33]. The rate of technology adoption and its intensity in the country is very low even by sub-Saharan standard. The loss of soil nutrients due to land degradation and improper use of animal dung is the highest in sub-Saharan Africa [19]
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