Abstract:
An adoption of modern fertilizer is a crucial decision to enhance the agricultural productivity
in sustainable manner to make the local community in food reliance. The imbalance between the
population growth rate and the agricultural production growth rate is one of the prominent
problems for enhancing availability of food in Ethiopia particularly in the study area. To meet
the growing population's food needs, agricultural production must be increased. This could be
realized among others through utilizing modern fertilizers. This study aimed to identify factors
for resistance of farmers in adopting modern fertilizer among households in Quara woreda,
North West Ethiopia. A cross sectional study design was conducted on 197 farmers, which were
randomly selected from 5 sample kebeles. The response variable for current investigation was
adoption of modern fertilizer, which had two possible outcomes (adopting or non-adopting).
Hence, Binary logistic regression model was used for current investigation for data analysis.
Among the predictors, sex of households, age group of households, level of education, fertilizer
cost, perception of households on the support of agricultural offices, farm area and distance of
fertilizer distribution center from household’s residence area were significantly associated with
farmers’ resistance on the adoption of modern fertilizer. Therefore, a concerted effort is needed
to encourage fertilizer adoption and optimum fertilizer use intensity by improving households’
resource endowment, institutional capacity to deliver quality services, and infrastructure
development.
Keywords
: Modern Fertilizer, Adoption, Farmers’ Resistance, Quara, Woina-Dega, Kolla,
Production