Abstract:
Adopts of soil and water conservation and impacts since 2018 in Fogera Woreda. In the study
primary and secondary sources were used for acquiring valuable information, which were
obtained through interview, field observation, focus group discussion, questionnaires and
published and unpublished documents. Data obtained from interview, field observation and
focus group discussion were analyzed qualitatively whereas the questionnaires were analyzed
quantitatively. Both open ended and close ended questionnaires were formulated and
administered for 119 sample household heads; they were selected randomly from three sample
kebeles. The data were analyzed by using percentage, chi-square test, independent T-test and
binary logistic regression model. The findings of the study revealed that traditional and modern
soil and water conservation methods were applied in some part of the study area. The result of
binary logistic regression model indicated that from the total of 15 explanatory variables were
included in the model of which ten were found to be significant at less than 5% significant level.
Sex of the households, age of the households, educational status of the households, contact to
development agents, training of the farmers, farm experience, labor accessibility of the
households, slope of the farm and farm size of the households have significant association to
adoption of soil conservation technologies .On the other hand, off-farm income, livestock
holding and family size were insignificant relationship with adoption of soil conservation
measures at 5% level of significant .Generally the result of the study confirmed that different
demographic, socio economic, physical and institutional factors were the major determinants
that affect adoption decision of soil conservation practices. Accordingly, interventions in the
areas of appropriate soil conservation effective implementation and sustainable conservation
structures should be applied.
