Agriculture has been assumed to be a vital sector for achieving food security and alleviating poverty. Rice is crucial and most cultivated cereal has a good potential to food self-sufficiency and food security. The production of rice is low in the district due to low attention given to the rice production and low agricultural technology adoption decision to rice production. Therefore, this research attempts to evaluate the determinants that affecting rice yield in the district employing cross-sectional field survey data gathered in 2022. A cross-sectional field survey was collected among 384 rice cultivators in the Fogera district, Amhara region. For the data analysis descriptive statistics and binary logit regression model were conducted. The results of binary logit regression presented the rice production was significantly affected by size of family, educational status, available family labor, livestock owned, access to extension, credit use, access to information, distance to nearest market, and distance to nearest road. Among these key underlying determinants educational status, available family labor, livestock owned, access to extension, credit use, and access to information were positively associated with rice production, whereas size of family, distance to nearest market, and distance to nearest road were negatively associated. The results evaluated the role of rice production at farm level due to higher yield and income could translate in to improved food security and grower’s welfare. Therefore, concern bodies should give a vital attention to rice production which is a key to enhance rice grower’s income.
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