| Summary: | The importance of agricultural technology in enhancing production and productivity can
be realized when yield increasing technologies are widely been used and diffused. Standing
from this logical ground, this paper aimed at identifying the determinants of agricultural
technology adoption decision and examining the impact of adoption on farm income. Cross
sectional data was collected through semi-structured questionnaire administered on 270
randomly selected smallholder farmers. Probit and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression
models were employed. Consistent with the findings of previous studies, regression results
showed that agricultural technology adoption decision of farm households has been
determined by irrigation use, land ownership right security, credit access, distance to the
nearest market, plot distance from the home stead, off-farm participation and tropical
livestock unit. The regression result also revealed that agricultural technology adoption has
a positive and significant effect on farm income by which adopters are better-offs than nonadopters.
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