Abstract:
The main objective of this study was to identifying the determinants of Crossbreed Dairy Cows
technology adoption and explores the impact of adoption in terms of income and assets on small
households’ livelihood in Gibe woreda, Hadiya zone, SNNPRS, Ethiopia. The woreda has
21rural kebeles and 4 municipal cities with one urban center. Of these kebeles, only six kebeles
were potential according to participating on the dairy technologies. By using multistage steps
procedure three kebeles were randomly selected for the study and 328 sample households from
those kebeles. These selected households were grouped two parts that contain 154 adopters and
174 non-adopters. Primary data were collected from the sample households and key informants
by using questionnaire. Secondary data were collected from different source such as related
literatures, different relevant sector annual reports and research result documents. Descriptions
of the sampled population and test of the existence of association between the dependent and
explanatory variables to identify factors affecting adoption of dairy technologies were discussed.
Logistic regression results revealed that, education level, family size, farming land size, off-farm
income activates, distance to market, credit access, extension contact and input access were
significant and positively affect adoption decision of improved Crossbreed dairy Cows adoption
and sex of household headed affect negatively. In this study Tobit model used to assess factors
related to the intensity of improved Crossbreed dairy Cows adoption and PSM method used to
estimate the impact of improved crossbreed Cows adoption in income and physical assets on
small farmers’ livelihood of rural household. The result from PSM indicated that crossbreed
dairy technology adoption has positive and significant impact on small farmers livelihood
interims of adopters’ annual incomes increased in average by 46.1% and the physical estimated
assets increased in average 100%. In conclusion, diary technology has powerful capacity effect
on small farmers in terms of income and assets producing. Therefore, based on the finding of this
study, focus should be given to major factors that affect crossbreed dairy Cows technology
adoption and improving awareness and perception through training, strengthen developmental
agents capacity, introducing and disseminating to explore the impact of crossbreed dairy cows
adoption on smallholder households’ livelihood by applicable government and nongovernmental organizations to increase production and productivity of sector
