2.3.1 Determinants of Farm Households' Adoption Decision The factors that determine farmers' adoption of decisions related to improved agricultural technologies have been extensively studied in the agricultural literature. 'adoption. Farm households' adoption decision is influenced by a number of interconnected components within the decision-making environment in which farmers operate. Several authors in the adoption literature have argued that the adoption of innovations is influenced by factors such as agricultural household characteristics (education, age and household size), farm characteristics, technological characteristics, wealth (economic status) , contact with extension workers, farmers' knowledge of the specific technology, price, access to seeds and farmers' position in the farmers' organisation. Some constraints on the adoption of improved technologies were also studied. For example, lack of credit, limited access to information, risk aversion, inadequate farm size, insufficient human capital, ownership arrangements, absence of adequate agricultural equipment, chaotic supply of complementary inputs and inadequate transportation infrastructure have been major constraints to the rapid adoption of innovations in less developed countries (Feder et al., 1985). However, in different socioeconomic situations not all factors are equally important. Many studies on the adoption of technology by producers are linked to the choices of individual farmers as they are influenced by factors that can be classified into: characteristics of the farm and the farmer; technological characteristics and agricultural objectives (Adesina and Zinnah, 1993). Farming households' decision to adopt improved technologies or not may be influenced by factors related to their objectives and constraints. These factors include farmers' decision to adopt improved agricultural technology or not. For example, the study by Asfaw et al. (1994) in the Bako area revealed that farmers' participation in extension activities significantly influenced the adoption of maize variety. Land ownership can also influence a farmer's decision to adopt improved technology or not. Some literatures have shown that land ownership and adoption of improved agricultural technologies are inversely related. This means that farmers who own the land they grow on are less likely to adopt improved technologies. Awotide et al., (2012b) found that land ownership negatively and significantly determines farmers' decision to adopt improved agricultural technologies. Arslan et al., (2013) also found that land ownership is negatively related to adoption and adoption intensity.