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Factors associated with the adoption of agricultural technologies: a case of Sasakawa global 2000 project in Dodoma rural district, Tanzania
(Sokoine University of Agriculture, 1995) Machumu, Finehas Baraka Ndaro
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 non 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 non 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.