Abstract            Volume:13  Issue-6  Year-2025         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

Chickpea is a cool-season food legume which considered a less labor-intensive crop and serves as a multi-use crop. It can grow on residual moisture and be sown at the end of the rainy season following the harvest of the main crop. For this different improved chickpea varieties with their packages were promoted and disseminated. However, factors that influence adoption decisions and intensity of improved chickpea varieties were not conducted in the study area. Thus, the purposes of this study were to identify factors affecting adoption decisions and adoption intensity of improved chickpea technologies of smallholder farmers in West Hararghe zone, Oromia region. For this study, both primary and secondary data were used. Primary data were collected from 189 households (156 adopters and 33 non-adopters) and supported by secondary data. To address the stated above objectives descriptive statistics and econometric models (Heckman two-step) were employed. The econometric result of Heckman's two-step model indicated that the likelihood of adopting the decision of improved chickpeas was positively and significantly affected by the sex of the household, education level, household size (adult equivalent), and land owned of the household. Where, livestock owned (tlu), land owned, use chemicals for chickpeas, and frequency of extension contacts positively and significantly influenced the intensity of adoption of improved chickpea varieties among farmers. The findings generally suggest the need to increase the frequency of extension contacts and use of chemicals for the existence of disease and pests in chickpea production.

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