2025/07/28 by Zegeye, Mesele Belay, Abebaw Hailu Fikrie, Anteneh Bizualem Asefa
paper · doi:10.20372/nadre:13449
Wheat is one of the most important cereal crops cultivated in wide range<br> of agro-ecologies in Ethiopia. But, its productivity has remained low. Hence, this<br> study intends to examine the impact of agricultural technology adoption on wheat<br> productivity in north Shewa zone of the Amhara region, Ethiopia. The analysis is<br> based on household level data covering 693 households collected in 2020.<br> Multinomial logit model (MNL) and multinomial endogenous switching regression<br> (MESR) models are used for analysis. The results reveal that agricultural technology<br> adoptions are affected by the education level of the household head, off-farm<br> employment, tropical livestock, access to credit, household saving, extension visit,<br> and distance from the market. In addition, the study shows that the adoption of<br> fertilizer and/or improved seed increases wheat productivity significantly.<br> Furthermore, the adoption of a combined fertilizer and improved seed provides<br> higher productivity than the adoption of single technologies. Therefore, this study<br> recommends that government and other stakeholders should have to work in<br> collaboration with rural farmers to increase rural technology generation; dissemination<br> and adoption interventions to improve wheat productivity in the study area.