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    THE EFFECT OF SMALL SCALE IRRIGATION ON HOUSEHOLD INCOME AND FOOD SECURITY (IN CASE OF LAELAY LEGOMTY, WEREDA ADWA)
    (Mekelle University, 2025-09-25) GebretsadkanTetemkeGebray
    Shortage in amount and variability in trends of rainfall, and crop failure are serious problems indeveloping countries like Ethiopia and in Weredaadwa in particular. Small- scale irrigationactivities has been implemented by the rural households as a means of increasing productivity byreducing crop failure associated with erratic rain fed agriculture and ensuring smallholderfarmers income though improving their production. This study was conducted to estimate theeffect of small-scale irrigation of rural households’ income and food security in LaelayLegomtyweredaadwa. In order toachieve the objective, primary data was collected in the way of questionnaire survey, groupdiscussion and key informant interviews in sample kebeles, and systematically andrandomly selected 60 irrigation users and 60 non- users rural households. The propensityscore matching technique was used to reduce the possibility of bias due to unobserved factors.Logit regression model and OLS model was used to estimate propensity score and to identify determinants ofrural households’ user in irrigation effects on income and food ecurity of the household in the rural area. The average user effect of smallscale irrigation on theincome of the rural households was identified by using the nearest-of non user of irrigation. Estimated outcome variable was statistically significant at 1% level of significanceand insensitive to unobserved factors. Irrigation user rural households in the area improvedtheir income by Birr 250,466 than non- users. Thus, the study concluded that user in small-scaleirrigation has significant positive effect on rural households’ income and food security of irrigation users in the area. The result revealed that user in small-scale irrigation was significantly and positivelyaffected by age, educational level of the household head, active family labor,familysize,land holding, credit access , livestock ownership of the household and market information services. Butsignificantly and negatively affected by extension services of the household head.