_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: tesfayemamaru@yahoo.com; Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 15(1): 1-8, 2017; Article no.JEAI.18966 Previously known as American Journal of Experimental Agriculture ISSN: 2231-0606 SCIENCEDOMAIN international www.sciencedomain.org Determinants of Adoption of Improved Highland Forage Type: Evidence from Dendi District, West Shoa Zone, Ethiopia Mamaru Tesfaye 1* and Tadele Melaku 2 1 Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research, HARC, P.O.Box 2003, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. 2 Institute of Cooperative and Developmental Studies, Ambo University, P.O.Box 49, Ambo, Ethiopia. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between both authors. Both authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/JEAI/2017/18966 Editor(s): (1) Rusu Teodor, Department of Technical and Soil Sciences, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Reviewers: (1) Yang Weiwei, Beijing University of Technology, China. (2) Andell Edwards, University of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sciencedomain.org/review-history/17497 Received 19 th May 2015 Accepted 16 th June 2015 Published 11 th January 2017 ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to investigate the major determinate factors of improved highland forages types in the study area and data were collected through survey by developing structured questionnaires for the total sampled households including household heads, members, key informants and subject matter specialists. The data were analysed by using simple descriptive stastics analysis mean, Percentage and Standard deviation. To this end, determinate factors of adoption for the improved highland forage type technologies has been outlined and major factors were all the demographic factor which constitute about 72% and it related with the ever increasing of population size at alarming rate which exacerbated the decline of land to labour ratio meaning shortage of land. 74% of the sampled household heads were cannot read and write. Similarly, this was also strongly correlated with low level of technology adoption (improved highland forage). Other factors of variables in the study were income of family which constitute 4%, educational status which constitute 80%, lack of information which constitute 12%, biophysical status of the land which constitute 66% and intuitional factors were part of the problem and all these are putted according to their order of importance and the overall finding of the study underlined the high Original Research Article