Abstract: This study aimed at Moringa production efficiency analysis, commercialization, and evaluation of its food and nutrition security impacts at smallholder farm household level. It aims to fill the missing knowledge gaps through a cross-sectional survey study on data collected from selected 232 Moringa producer and 232 non-producer smallholder farmers from Wolaita and Gamo zones, southern Ethiopia. Descriptive statistics and econometric models were used to analyze data. First, the stud...
Abstract: Vegetables play significant role in income generation and improving nutritional status in Ethiopia and Habru district in particular. However, the development of vegetable subsector faces various marketing problems in Habru district. Therefore, this study aimed to analyze vegetables (onion and tomato) market chain in Habru district. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study. A random sample of 147 vegetable producer households and 53 vegetable traders were used to gene...
Abstract: The impact of climate change and variability on livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia has become severer than ever before. As a result, weather index based insurance has been advocated as one of the recommended risk transfer mechanisms to support farmers in coping with production risks. The objectives of this study were to assess the risk coping mechanisms, the willingness to pay for weather index based insurance, and the factors influencing smallholder farmers’ willingn...
Abstract: Potato is the most important root crop in Jeldu district, which is used for home consumption and market. However, lower production and productivity, and lower rate of adoption of improved potato varieties were the major problems constraining the potential benefit that can be obtained from the sector in the study area. The purpose of this study was, therefore, to identify factors that affect adoption and intensity of adoption of improved potato varieties in Jeldu district. The study...
Abstract: In Ethiopia, teff is one of most important crops in terms of number of producers and area coverage. It is the main source of cash income and food security crop for most of rural areas. Dejen district is well known in the production of teff in Amhara Region. This study was aimed to evaluate the efficiency of teff market chain and to identify factors determining farmers’ teff market participation and level of participation. A multi stage sampling procedure was used to draw sample p...
Abstract: This study examines the level of integration between the beef cattle markets in Mekele City in Tigray regional state. The study employs Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) for analyzing the relationship among the aforementioned markets. Nine year series of monthly observations from July 2008 to 2016 were used. Unit root tests of the series in study reveal that all the series are non-stationary at level and stationary after first differenced. The result from Johansen test indicates...
Abstract: The performance of Development Agents is an important factor for the fulfillment of agricultural extension’s goals. The job performance of the DA relies on the job satisfaction, motivation and competence of the individual DA. Performance evaluation is a key duty in extension organization to determine whether the goals of extension are achieved or not. Development Agents in the study area showed low motivation, and less communication with farmers. Moreover, farmers were not satisf...
Abstract: Food security is one of the critical concerns and top priority of policy agenda for developing countries. Having clear picture on food security status and its determinants helps policy makers to devise appropriate policies that enhance food security. Hence, this study aims to determine the food security status of the households, status, gap and severity of food insecurity among rural households and its determinants in Oda Bultum district of West Hararghe zone, Oromia National Regio...
Abstract: In the last two decades, the smallholder crop production in Ethiopia has enjoyed relative growth in acreage, output, and number of growers, but productivity has remained low. In Ethiopia, there are different empirical studies on efficiency analysis in different agroecologies, the results shows that there is significant difference in technical efficiency and inefficiency variables. What is scarce in the literature is that their conclusion is not consistent with one another. Therefor...
Abstract: Information access among smallholder farmers is very important as it keeps farmers aware of what is happening in their work area and make decisions. The importance of information for wheat producers in Ethiopia cannot be undermined since it helps them make the right decisions about their farming production. The main objectives of this study was to assess the smallholder wheat producers’ access to agricultural information and to examine factors that contribute to accessing informa...
Abstract: The study was carried out in four purposively selected FTCs in Gambella region. This research attempted to study the roles of ICTs in management of agricultural knowledge. It then examined the status and use of ICTs in Agricultural Knowledge Management, evaluated the provision of Agricultural Information and knowledge and, identified constraints of ICT use for agricultural knowledge management in selected FTCs. The subject (unit) of analysis is in this research were various stakeho...
Abstract: Teff is one of the dominant cereal crops in Hadero-Tunto Zuria ditrict. However, there was great productivity difference among the teff producing farmers in the district because of their efficiency difference in using the existing resource. Accordingly, this study was conducted to measure the technical, allocative and economic efficiencies of smallholder teff producers and to identify factors that determining overall efficiencies in the district. Cross sectional data from 185 rando...
Abstract: To increase groundnut production and farmers income using improved seed is crucial. However, few farmers were engaged in seed producing and marketing cooperative. Therefore, this research was conducted to identify the factors that determine smallholder farmers’ decision to participate and level of members’ participation in seed producing and marketing cooperative. A purposive sampling technique was employed to select local seed business project intervention Kebeles for the anal...
Abstract: The purpose of this research is to reveal the agricultural information need and seeking behavior of the Abergelle woreda smallholder farmers. In this information era, smallholder farmers’ information needs change with their geographical location, economic, demographic, psychological and institutional factors. Till now to the level of the author’s knowledge no study has been done on the topic in the study area yet, therefore, conducting a research on identifying information need...
Abstract: Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is one of the major pulse crops grown in the highlands of Wolaita Zone in Ethiopia. However, the production is challenged by soil acidity, low soil fertility, and scarcity of improved varieties. Therefore, three studies (survey, pot and field) were conducted in Wolaita Zone in 2019 and 2020 main cropping seasons with four key objectives:To assess farmers’ soil fertility and faba bean production practices; to identify the optimum liming rate and best vari...