Household level determinants of agricultural extension program participation: Evidence from sekota, Ethiopia

Ethiopian agriculture is characterized by traditional and subsistence peasant farming whose access to modern technology and basic education is very limited. However,aagricultural technology is a means through which agricultural efficiency, productivity and production improvement can be made to fight against hunger and poverty. It is also noted these agricultural technology can be dissiminatd through exxpandin agricultural extension program.Therefore, the objective of this is to identified the main factos that hindes households to partcipate in the agriculyural extension program in Sekota,Ethiopia. Three stages sampling were used in which both non-random sampling and random sampling procedures was followed to select 252 respondents. The major output of the study indicates that agricultural extension program partcipation of the household was significantly influenced by dependancy ratio,household heades age,education level, remitance income, media access, social institution partcipation, land holding, livestock holding, and tabia distance from the woreda market.