This stlldy was conducted with the objective to assess the practices and challenges ofrnRWNT, /{J examine the/actors that affect farmers decision to adopt RWNT, to explore thernperception of the local people abollt the lil'nitation and prospects of RWNT, and lastly tornassess the contribution of RWNT to fanners' food security, In order to realize the factsrnhousehold survey on 100 fann households having equal number of participant and nOI1rnporticipont fa 1'1 ners, two focus group discussions with selected RWf-IT user and 110n userrngroup (4' farmers, six key it,/ormant interviews with concerned stakeholders werernconducted andfinally secondary data were used to support the primary data,rnThe stlulv area was selected through a /'Illliti-stage purposive sa/'llpling technique whilernsill/pie mlldo/ll sOli/piing was entployed .for surveying the RWHT user ond the non userrn.Iitrmef.', nte study employed both qUClliwtive alld qUCllllitative methods of dow analysisrnin order {() in corporate the facts investigated through discussions, interviews ond surveyrno( households, Where the qualitative data were used to triangulate the in/cJI'Inationrnco/lected through focus gmup discussion and key informant interview, And descripti vernstatistics and Peorson x2-test were used .fbI' quantitative data analysis, The result ofrnPea rsoll x2-test has shown that total land size offarmers', livestock availability includingrnoxen, access 10 credit service, saving, labor availability alld large family size havernpositive association with RWHT adoption, And again. the educational status, level ofrneducation of household head (lnd sO/lrce of income /i-oll1 the agricultural sector arernpositively (lssociCLIed with RWHTrnFUr/hennore, the result from the qualitCLIive data indicated that the overall trend ofrnRWHT adoption in the study area was found to be increasing, And most of the localrnpeople perception was found to be positive to the RWHT I-Iowever, farmers arernchollenged by institlltional, technological and Jinancial and environment relmedrnprohlellls to adopt and to /ltili~e the technology,rnFilloil)" the .I'tlldy revealed thm RWI-IT improves the food securitv status offarmers byrnitnl'rol'ing their incollle f rol'n rain fed agriculture, and their assets SIIeh as lil'estockrnproduction. There/ore, efforts shouJd be made by the government and other concernedrnbodies 10 lI1inimize the structural, institutional ,andfarm.er related challenges in order tornenhance the benefits of RWI-IT