The research was conducted at Al- Hassaka province during the 2010 - 2011 season to study socio-economic factors and other factors affecting the decision of wheat farmers to adopt the technology of modern irrigation and to identify the barriers that limit the adoption of these techniques. Correlation and binary logistic regression was applied for data analysis. The results showed that 77.78% of the total farmers studied were using modern irrigation to irrigate their wheat crops and the rest were using traditional irrigation and this percentage is expected to increase from 77.78% in 2010 to 95% in 2025 with an annual rate of nearly 1.15%. Sprinkler irrigation adopted by larger percentage (63.33%) of farmers who adopted modern irrigation techniques and followed by the developed surface irrigation on lines (11.11%). It was observed that the high cost of the network played a fundamental role in the lack of 42.55% of farmers to adopt modern irrigations Statistical analysis showed that there was an inverse significant relationship between each of independent variables (percentage of farming labor force to total family labor force, farmer's experience) and the dependant variable adoption of modern irrigation techniques but there was a positive significant relationship between adoption of modern irrigation and other independent variables such as, cereals yield, farmers education level and direction of the farmer towards the agricultural extension.