ETHIOPIAN DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE Determinants of Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption in Ethiopia Feiruz Yimer and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse IFPRI ESSP Ethiopian Economics Association 13th International Conference on the Ethiopian Economy July 23-25, 2015 Addis Ababa 1
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ETHIOPIAN DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Determinants of Improved Agricultural Technology Adoption in Ethiopia Feiruz Yimer and Alemayehu Seyoum Taffesse
IFPRI ESSP
Ethiopian Economics Association 13th International Conference on the Ethiopian EconomyJuly 23-25, 2015Addis Ababa
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Introduction
• Adoption of improved and modern agricultural technologies is the most common method for achieving higher agricultural production (driver for ‘Green Revolution’)
• Use of fertilizer and improved seed are the most commonly used modern agricultural technologies in Ethiopia
• Use of fertilizer covers 52.6 percent while improved seed is applied on only 7.3 percent of the cultivated area (CSA, 2014)
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Literature• Use of chemical fertilizer and the intensity of
use (Croppenstedt et. al., 2003; Yu and Nin-pratt, 2014; and Beshir et. al., 2012)
• The factors that determine the practice of land management (Wossen et. al., 2015 and Gebremedhin and Swinton, 2003)
• These studies focus on a single agricultural technology.
• So, it is important to look at the use the technologies in package form or the inter-linkage between the technologies adopted.
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Research Questions
1. What determines the use of improved agricultural technologies?
2. Are improved agricultural technologies complementary or substitutes?
3. What determines farmer’s adoption of a given improved technology or a combination of technologies?
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Data and Methodology
Feed the Future baseline data set (2013)• 7011 households but used only 5904
households• Five regions: Tigray, Amhara, Oromiya,
SNNP and Somalia• 84 weredas• 244 enumeration areas
Dependent variables are improved technology adoption variables: Use of fertilizer, improved seed, soil and water conservation, chemicals and row planting