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The purpose of this study is to examines and evaluate the impact of socio-economic factors on the adoption of resource conserving technologies in farms of AL-Prespa. Using the survey data, a logit model is estimated employing the procedure of maximum likelihood to determine the characteristics associated with adoption of environmentally focused technologies. The findings suggest that while government financial assistance to farmers, the level of farmer education, farmers’ income, and farm size has a significant positive effect on the marginal probability of technology adoption. On the other hand, tenure insecurity and age of farmer have significant negative effects on the adoption. Availability of credit to farmers, off-farm employment opportunities, and perception of the resource degradation problem has a positive influence on the probability of adoption, however, their magnitude was not found to be statistically …