Empirical Review of food crop technologies Adoption in Ethiopia: Meta-Analysis

Adoption of improved food crop technologies is known to be the prerequisite for productivity improvement. However, due to different socioeconomic, demographic and institutional factors the level of food crop technology adoption and utilization is not optimal. A meta-analysis is performed to review empirical estimates of Adoption factors of improved food crop technologies in Ethiopia. The result indicated the adoption of the technology defined by sample size, technology type, study period. The analysis result also confirmed that the mean size effect of food crop technology adoption estimate is function of training, irrigation, extension service and credit access, oxen holding, cooperative membership, TLU, labor force and income. This implied that through awareness creation, improving farmer to farmer and farmer to extension and research linkage, improving credit access, infrastructural development, livestock ownership and income earning opportunity, it is possible to accelerate the speed of food crop technologies. The study results also justified that food crop technologies only focused on the specific technology type and quantity, not on how the technology implemented by farmers, these assumed to be probable reason for low adoption of improved practices that resulted in low agricultural production and productivity the sector.

Keywords:Adoption; Food crop; Means size effect; Meta-analysis; Ordered Logit; Technology