CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION FOR MAIZE PRODUCER WOMEN FARMERS IN BURIE ZURIA WOREDA, AMHARA NATIONAL REGIONAL

YICHALEM, MULAT

dc.contributor.author	YICHALEM, MULAT
dc.date.accessioned	2019-10-21T05:31:07Z
dc.date.available	2019-10-21T05:31:07Z
dc.date.issued	2019-10-31
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9959
dc.description.abstract	Women make significant contributions to the rural economy, yet they consistently have less access to resources and opportunities they need to be more productive. Increasing women’s access to agricultural technology, extension service, and training would boost their productivity and generate gains in terms of agricultural production. As far as the researcher’s knowledge, despite limited studies carried out to investigate how appropriate technology was employed in the agriculture sector, there are no tangible empirical findings regarding the contribution of agricultural mechanization from gender perspective. This study was, therefore, conducted to , to identify opportunities to use the technology, to analyze the determinant factors that influence maize production of women farmers, to assess the benefits of agricultural and to assess existing needs of women farmers in Burie Zuria Woreda by taking three sample kebeles namely: Wadra Gindiba, Alefa Basi and Zalima. The survey questionnaire was collected from 168 sampled maize producer women farmers selected using systematic random sampling technique from both women headed and men headed households. Accordingly, qualitative data were drawn from purposively selected samples; 23 FGD participants and 7 key informant interviewees. The research approach of this study was a mixed research approach with a concurrent parallel design for data collection and data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data. Multiple linear regression model was employed to determine the factors of agricultural mechanization for maize production of women farmers . The result of Multiple linear regression model showed that as marital status, availability of technology, utilization of technology, access to credit service and knowledge were significant predictors while age of women, education level of women, training access, access to technology, gender stereotype and access to market were insignificant predictor to agricultural mechanization for maize production of women farmers. There were agricultural technologies used in the study area, whereas its adequate availability and appropriateness to women are limited women farmers have needed to adopt technologies.Finally to increase maize production and productivity of women farmers, government, NGOs, higher education institutions and technology producers, and providers should work together in providing training, awareness raising and gender-sensitive or women-friendly technologies. Keywords: Maize, women farmers, Agricultural mechanization, Maize Sheller, improved	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT	en_US
dc.title	CONTRIBUTION OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION FOR MAIZE PRODUCER WOMEN FARMERS IN BURIE ZURIA WOREDA, AMHARA NATIONAL REGIONAL	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US