Abstract

Sustainability of agricultural technologies requires an understanding of farmers socio-economic and farm characteristics, as well as the choice of technologies adopted by the farming households. The objective of this study is to investigate the farmers’ socio- economic, adoption level, socio- cultural and environmental characteristics as well as the contribution to the sustained use index of these and some other independent variables. A multistage random sampling was used to collect primary data from the respondents, and the data collected were analyzed with spearman correlation methods. The results revealed that, there were significant positive correlations between age and sustained use index (r =0.16), organizational membership and extension contact (r = 0.21), factors affecting adoption of cassava technologies (r = 0.09) while a negative significant correlation exists between factors affecting adoption of cassava technology and extension contact (r = - 0.15). In conclusion, sustainable use of technology requires understanding better the socio-economic constraints of farmers as well as policy implications to encourage the sustained use of adopted technologies.

Key words: Sustainability, technology, cassava, farmer.