Exploring Farmers’ Perception and Constraints on the Adoption of Small-Scale Irrigation in Hulet Eju Enesie District, North-Western Ethiopia

Table 6

Relative importance index (RII) of disadvantageous attributes of small-scale irrigation.

List of attributes	Total sample (184)
	RII	Rank of attributes
Irrigation requires high cost of production	0.85	1^st
Irrigation needs some level of skill and knowledge	0.74	2^nd
Irrigation reduces soil fertility	0.65	3^rd
Long bureaucracy to get extension services for irrigation	0.57	4^th
Irrigation is susceptible to production risk	0.48	5^th
SSI has a negative environmental effect	0.47	6^th

Source: Computed from own survey data, (2021).