2025/07/28 by Markew Mengiste Neway, Mesele Belay Zegeye
paper · doi:10.20372/nadre:13482
This paper aims to analyze gender differences in the adoption of agricultural<br> technology in the North Shewa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The data<br> were collected in 2021 from 796 farm households and were analyzed using binary<br> logit model. The results show that the adoption rate of agricultural technology in<br> the zone by male-headed (87.3%) and female-headed households are significantly<br> different, and adoption is lower for female-headed households (61.2%). The<br> descriptive results reveal that female headed households had lower access to<br> education, land size, and for that reason technology adoption. Moreover, the results<br> show that the decision to adopt agricultural technology is significantly influenced by<br> the gender of the household, the level of education of the householder, the marital<br> status of the householder, participation in saving, membership of an agricultural<br> cooperative, distance from the market and access to extension visits, access to<br> certain credit, total arable land and livestock asset. Therefore, the results suggest<br> that policies and programs that aim at developing and disseminating agricultural technology in the Zone should vigorously support economically less endowed but<br> more gender-egalitarian, especially female-headed ones.