Abstract:
Significant information on agroforestry practices for natural resource management as well as
factors affecting adoption of these practices by farmers in Mana woreda, Oromyia region, is
scant. Therefore, this study is conducted with the objective to assess adoption major agroforestry
practices by farm household. Primary data employed in this study was obtained from 184
randomly selected sample households. Multi-stage random sampling procedure was employed to
select the sample farm household heads. The data was gathered using a structured interview,
focus group discussions, observation, case study and key informants interviews, were analyzed
using descriptive statistics. Inferential and descriptive statistics such as T-test and chi-square
tests were also used to test hypothesis. The survey result shows that major agroforestry practices
by the adopter include home garden, boundary planting and woodlot. The farmers’ perception to
agroforestry practices were vary and significant at (p<0.01) probability level. The contributions
of annual incomes from tree products for adopter and non-adopter were 2949.90 and 2747.17
ETB, respectively. While income from crop were 2580.16 and 2530.97 ETB and livestock
1994.18 and 2341.30 ETB. This indicates the contribution of income from tree products was very
high as compare crop and livestock. Reason provided in the survey could be considered as major
constraints to adoption of agroforestry practice were like lack of enough farm size, pests and
drought influence the adoption of agroforestry practices more than other factor. Before running
the binary logit model all the hypothesized explanatory variables were checked for the existence
of multi-collinearity problem. Finally binary logistic regression models were fitted to analyze the
potential variables that affecting adoption of agroforestry practices. Among 15 explanatory
variables included in the logistic model, age and perception to agroforestry practices were
significantly affected adoption at (p<0.01) were as education, erosion and sex were significant
at (p<0.05) level. Results of the logistic regression analysis indicate that the households’ sex,
perception, educational levels and erosion affect the adoption of agroforestry practice positively
while age affect negatively. So for these variables need to be considered initiatives by
government and non-governmental organizations to promote agroforestry practice as a strategy
to realize integrated rural development in the study areas
