Factors associated with the adoption of agricultural technologies: a case of Sasakawa global 2000 project in Dodoma rural district, Tanzania
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Date
1995
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
The Sasakawa Global 2000 (SG2000) projects' strategy was successful during
implementation as revealed by its ability to enable farmers to increase sorghum
yields through training and demonstration as compared to the conventional
methods. However, the lack of empirical evidence to the reasons why farmers
in that project fail to continue adopting the SG2000 technologies prompted the
need to study in detail the factors associated with the adoption and nonĀ
adoption of the advocated technologies.
The study was conducted in 12 villages in Dodoma Rural District in Dodoma
Region. It involved 120 farmers and 20 village extension workers selected
randomly from 50 villages which have been phased out of the SG2000 project.
Interview schedules and field observations were used as instruments for data
collection. They were supplemented by documents and records from Regional
and District offices. Personal computer Sub-programmes "FREQUENCIES" and
"CROSSTABS" were used to analyse the data and was conducted at Sokoine
University of Agriculture.
Findings show that about four out of the six technologies in the package
introduced by SG2000 have been adopted (representing 67% of the adoption rate). The adopted technologies were those which demand minimum or nonĀ
monetary investment while the non-adopted technologies were those which
demand monetary investment.
Adoption was found to be influenced by cost of inputs, labour requirements,
supply of inputs, inferior tools and equipment, credit, time of phasing out,
teaching methods and markets. Out of these factors cost of input influenced
strongly the non-adoption and/or failure to continue using the technologies
while credit availability was strong for adoption of the technologies.
In order to increase adoption and continued use of introduced technologies, the
following were recommended: a) Creation of sorghum market, b) improvement
of ox-training programme, c) motivation of private sector to become stockists,
d) improvement of credit provision and recovery, and e) use of actual bottom-
up extension approach.
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Dissertation
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Agricultural projects, Sorghum yields, Village extension workers