Agricultural technology adoption is critical to increasing productivity, profitability, and welfare of smallholder farmers. A high number of maize and cowpea production technologies have been developed, validated, and introduced to farmers. However, the adoption of these technologies continues to remain low and uneven and what really influences farmers’ decisions to adopt these technologies at the farm level is unclear. This study analysed the key drivers of the adoption of maize and cowpea technologies using recent comprehensive data collected through a household survey of 463 farmers. The study applied both the probit and logit models to estimate the factors influencing adoption in the study area. The study found a high rate of adoption among farmers with heterogeneous effects on the number of technologies adopted. Regional location of the farmer, age, FBO membership, distance to farm, access to credit, access to extension services and gender are the statistically significant factors that influence technology adoption in northern Ghana. Institutional strengthening such as FBOs and extension service provision as well as private sector participation that makes finance accessible to smallholder farmers has a great potential of catalysing the adoption of improved technologies for improving the welfare of farmers.

采用农业技术对于提高小农的生产力、盈利能力和福利至关重要。大量玉米和豇豆生产技术已被开发、验证并引入农民。然而，这些技术的采用率仍然很低且不均衡，真正影响农民在农场层面采用这些技术的决定的因素尚不清楚。本研究使用最近通过对 463 名农民进行的家庭调查收集的综合数据分析了采用玉米和豇豆技术的主要驱动因素。该研究同时应用了 probit 和 logit 模型来估计影响研究区域采用的因素。该研究发现，农民的采用率很高，对采用的技术数量有不同的影响。农民的区域位置、年龄、FBO 成员资格、到农场的距离、获得信贷、获得推广服务和性别是影响加纳北部技术采用的统计显着因素。诸如 FBO 和推广服务提供等机构强化以及使小农获得资金的私营部门参与具有促进采用改进技术以改善农民福利的巨大潜力。