Abstract: Food insecurity is a recurrent phenomenon in Ethiopia. To reverse this phenomena investment on variety development and dissemination of improved teff varieties to farmers have been made by regional and national agricultural research institutes. Even though efforts on disseminating improve teff varieties have been made in the area, there is no empirical evidence those varieties that brings on food security. Moreover, previous studies employ propensity score matching which could not ...
Abstract: Climate change is causing the greatest environmental, social and economic threats across the globe. Its impact has been increasing especially on agricultural activities in developing countries. It depresses crop yields through temperature increase and reductions of precipitation. Climate change mainly affected low-income countries where their adaptive capacities are perceived to be low, due to weak institutional capacity, limited engagement in environmental and adaptation issues an...
Abstract: Ethiopia is known to be one of the food insecure countries in the world. One way of solving the food insecurity problem is through enhancement of efficiency in agricultural production in general and in wheat production in particular. This study was conducted with the general objective; of assessing the economic efficiency of smallholder wheat producers in the Robe District of Arsi zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. Both primary and secondary data sources were used for this stud...
Abstract: Milk is an important dairy product, particularly in Yabello district and generally in the pastoral area of Ethiopia. It is a source of food and cash income for the majority of the smallholder milk producers. Especially for poor households, transforming the subsistence-oriented production system into a market-oriented production system serves as a way to increase the smallholder farmer’s income and reduce rural poverty. This needs a deliberate improvement in smallholder commercial...
Abstract: The sub optimal fertilizer use and unbalanced fertilizer applications has led to a decline in soil productivity and low response of tef to N and P fertilizers, which might be due to insufficiency of micronutrients in the soil. This study was initiated to investigate and map the status of micronutrients in soil and tef grown on Vertisols of Ada’a district. A total of sixty composite samples for each of soil, tef leaf and grain were collected from twenty georeferenced tef fields of...
Abstract: The importance of agricultural technology in enhancing the welfares of farmers can be realized when yield gain from the technologies results in meaningful income gain. This xv thesis aimed at analyzing adoption and intensity of adoption of improved soybean variety and to assess economic impact of improved soybean (Bellessa-95) variety on income among farm households in Bambasi woreda. In this study a multi-stage stratified sampling technique was employed to select rural kebeles and...
Abstract: Fish provides nutrients that are essential to cognitive and physical development, and an important part of healthy diet. However, fish post-harvest loss, resource tragedy, overfishing, low management and traditional fish harvesting practices are discouraging fish market supply and fishers profitability. Therefore, this study was sought to analyze fish value chain and post-harvest loss of Lake Hawassa. The study used cross-sectional data from representative fishers of 166 and key in...
Abstract: This study examined the determinants of smallholder farmers’ participation in and income from non-farm activities. In case of Daro Labu district, West Hararghe zone Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia. Data for the study was collected using structured questionnaires from 160 randomly selected farm households and secondary data from different source. Determinants of smallholder farmers’ participation in non-farm activities and the income derived from non-farm activities wer...
Abstract: Weather index based insurance has been one of the recommended risk transfer mechanisms to support smallholders in coping with production risks. The objectives of this study were to identify the factors affecting farm households’ WTP for crop insurance and estimate the mean amount of farmers’ willingness to pay for the proposed insurance scheme in the study area. To do this, a multi stage simple random sampling techniques was used to select 153 sample households from three sampl...
Abstract: Coffee is the major income generating cash crop for smallholder farmers in Gololcha District. However there were no information on market actors, determinants of coffee market supply, market margin and outlet choice. Therefore, objectives of the study were to identify structure-conduct-performance of coffee market, factors affecting market supply of coffee by smallholder farmers and determinants of coffee producer market outlet choice. The primary data were collected through person...
Abstract: Teff is one of the dominant crops and its productivity is low in the study area. This means that it is possible to obtained additional output from existing inputs used, if resource are properly used and efficiently allocated. The aim of this study was to determine the level of technical efficiency of smallholder teff producers and identify factors affecting technical efficiency of smallholder farmers in teff production of Jamma district, South Wollo Zone, Ethiopia. A three-stage sa...
Abstract: Lake Zeway fishery is threatened with problems of overexploitation and consequently unrecovered resources resulting in loss of its potentials due to mismanagement. This study identified the determinants of fishermen’s willingness to pay for fishery management and measured mean fishermen’s willingness to pay for lake Zeway fishery management. A two-stage random sampling techniques was applied to identify sample fishermen’s from Adami Tulu Gido Kombolcha, Zeway Dugda and Dugda ...
Abstract: Agriculture plays vital role in Ethiopian economy. However, despite its importance and potential, the sector has remained at subsistence level. One of the traditional sources of animal protein of the developing world is through livestock rearing. Unfortunately, the livestock production is under increasing pressure from the combined effects of human population growth, shortage of grazing land and desertification. Therefore, it is important to look for a better and cheap, alternative...
Abstract: (Two stages least square model and multivariate probit model) were used to analyze the collected data. Results confirmed that input suppliers, producers, rural assemblers, wholesalers, flour factories, retailers, primary cooperatives, bakeries, flour wholesalers, flour retailers, consumers and supportive actors were identified as wheat value chain actors in this study. The chain is governed mainly by flour factories. Eleven market channels were identified for wheat. Total gross mar...
Abstract: In Ethiopia, teff production contributes significantly to the economy in terms of cash income and food security, especially for the smallholder teff producers in rural areas. This study was aimed to analyze market chain of teff in the case of Merhabete District of Ethiopia. Cross sectional data was used for the study. A two stage sampling procedure was used to draw 150 sample producers from four teff producer kebeles and 34 sample traders were interviewed. Secondary data sources we...