Abstract:
This study was aimed at identifying the determinants of use intensity of improved teff variety
(quncho) adoption, its status of adoption and examining its impacts on productivity in terms
of output per hectare. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from primary and
secondary sources for this study. Multistage sampling techniques were employed to
determine sample size in study area. Totally 327 households head were randomly selected
from the three kebeles. Which consists 131 of them were adopters and 196 were nonadopters of improved teff variety (quncho). Both descriptive and inferential statistics were
employed for the data analysis. Tobit model was used to identify the determinants of use
intensity improved teff variety (quncho), propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique was
used to examine impact of adoption of improved teff(quncho) variety on farm productivity.
The results of the Tobit model showed age of the household head, off/non-farm income,
number of livestock size, land certificate, protestant and access to training have positive and
significant influence on use intensity of improved teff(quncho) variety adoption. On the other
hand, dependency ratio, Orthodox and Muslim have negative influence on use intensity of
improved teff variety (quncho) adoption. The propensity Score Matching result indicates
that teff productivity of adopter households is 859.24 kg/ha of higher than non-adopters and
the result is statistically significant. Therefore, collective actions of government agents,
agricultural experts, NGOs and seed providers advised to work together on the way of
expanding new technologies in rural communities and aware farm households about the
potential benefits of those technologies and sustain their positive impact on productivity.
