Impacts of crossbreed dairy cows adoption on smallhollder farmers livelhood: the case study of gibe woreda, hadiya zone, snnprs, Ethiopia

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