Adoption of Research and Farmer Developed Agricultural Innovations in Moretnajiru and Gimbichu Districts, Ethiopia

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The study was conducted to compare the adoption pattern of
research and farmer developed agricultural technologies. The hypothesis was
that [armer-developed technologies are II0t constrained by socia-economic. ograecological
and institutional variables compared to that of research-developed
technologies. The study was conducted in MoretllaJiru and Gimbichu woredas
(districts) in rhe Central Highlands of Ethiopia. The innovations considered in
the study were BUlzigne Ie/variety (farmer-developed varietal innovatioll) and Et-
13 wheat variety (research-based varietal i"novation). The data collected from
sample farmers were jilted to probit regression model. Most of the factors
considered did not show a dichotomized pattern of effects on the adoption of the
innovations.