Adoption Status and Perception of Farmers on Improved Tef Technology Packages: Evidence from East Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia

Table 19

Farmers’ perception on improved versus local Tef seed.

	Better yield		Disease tolerance		Lodging tolerance		Good germination		High straw quality		Early maturity
	Freq.	%	Freq.	%	Freq.	%	Freq.	%	Freq.	%	Freq.	%
Local	5	2.23	54	24.11	77	34.38	8	3.57	158	70.54	14	6.25
The same	18	8.04	37	16.52	54	24.11	21	9.38	60	26.79	108	48.21
Improved	201	89.73	133	59.38	93	41.52	195	87.05	6	2.68	102	45.54
Mean	2.87		2.35		2.07		2.83		1.32		2.39
Std. dev.	0.39		0.84		0.87		0.45		0.52		0.60

Source: computed from own survey, 2020.