Agriculture is the back bone of Ethiopia’s economy and Major Ethiopians’ livelihood depends on this sector. Even it has large contribution in the country, still it is not well developed due to different constraints such as soil degradation, poor management, insufficient of capital and technology and others. Now a day’s soil acidity is one of the problems that resulted low productivity in the country. Based on this idea researchers conducted their study on this sector to solve problems and to increase agricultural productivity by alleviating soil acidity problems. But still there was no any research conducted on soil acidity in the study area and in the study area the soil acidity problem is worse. So this problem initiates me to conduct my study on this issue. This study was conducted in Senan District, North West Ethiopia and the main objective of this study was to investigate the basic factors influencing farmers’ adoption of lime technology. The study employed mixed research design. The data was collected from: sample household heads (HHs); Woreda office heads, team leaders and experts; from Development Agents (DAs) and from kebele administrative staffs. Primary data were collected through questionnaire, interview, and focus group discussions. Descriptive statistics such as percentage, mean, standard deviation and inferential statistics such as independent t-test and chi-square test were used. Binary logistic regression model was also used for the study. The result of the study showed that; age, educational status, leadership status, economic level, family size, farm size, and access to extension expert contact had significant relationships with adoption of agricultural lime inputs on acidic soils. On the other side; sex, marital status, non-farm activities had no significant relationship with lime adoption in the study area. The binary logistic regression result also indicated that; educational status, leadership status, economic level, family size, and access to extension contact were positive determinant factors in lime adoption. Whereas, age and farm size of the HHs were negative determinant factors in lime adoption. As the result showed, the adoption rate was low; and affected by different factors and to solve the problems: providing training for HHs; improving experts support; sharing of experiences between adopter and non-adopters; and maximize the adoption rate of lime by solving problems were some important ideas.
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