Vegetable farming is an alternative source of livelihood and an important agricultural practice for income generation and employment opportunities. Currently, agricultural technologies are promoted among commercial vegetable growers to improve their livelihood. However, in many cases, the commercial vegetable farmers’ adoption rate of modern technologies is low. There is limited understanding of the technology’s adoption and the determinants of insights. This paper aims to assess the factors affecting technology adoption among commercial vegetable growers in three wards of the Arusha District, Tanzania. It targeted vegetable growers in the study area. This study adopted a cross-sectional design and quantitative approach guided by the theory of diffusion of innovation. The multi-stage sampling method was used to select a sample of 150 households. Data were gathered by a questionnaire applied in a survey method. The study used descriptive statistics to analyse the factors affecting agricultural technology adoption in the study area. Findings indicated that the farmers’ education, household income, farm size, access to extension services, and access to credit influence the adoption. These factors are fundamentally enclosed within the vicious cycle of poverty that limits growers from adopting innovative and adaptive strategies of effective agricultural technologies in the study area. It was concluded that agricultural adoption among vegetable commercial growers is determined by education, household income, farm size, access to extension services, and credit facilities in the study area. Hence, there is a need for purposive interventions to address these factors among agricultural and business actors.
Minja et al. (Tue,) studied this question.