Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors that determine the adoption of Small scale
irrigation practices in Bore district. Mixed research approach was employed for this study. The data
for the study were collected via interview, focus group discussion, questionnaire and secondary data
review. Results are based on data collected from a survey of 122 rural farm households selected
randomly by using lottery system. Descriptive statistics and Binary logistic regression were used to
examine the determinants of small-scale irrigation adoption. Among them 68.85% were non adopters
and 31.15% were adopters of the small scale irrigation practices. The Binary logistic regression model
analysis outcome indicate that among total of the eleven predictor variables, nine variables were
found to be significant determinant of adoption of small-scale irrigation. The analysis revealed that
training of household, planning of house hold, distance from households heads residence to the farm
land, access to extension service, total livestock holding, availability of family labor force, access
to
credit and gender of the household were important determinants for adopting in small- scale
irrigation schemes. The status of small scale irrigation is very low in terms of the distribution of farm
size and adoption of small scale irrigation. The challenges were Lack of extension services,
Awareness, lack of training center, planning problems of farmers, faller of infrastructure and Distance
of farm land. Therefore, recommended that policy options and development Interventions set out to
adopt small scale irrigation that leads to improve farm productivity and support irrigation technology
in rural Ethiopia
