Abstract: Contract farming has become a main pillar of the strategy to promote agricultural development in Ethiopia. Hence, this study aims at analyzing perceived risks, determinants of contract enforcement mechanisms and impacts of vegetables contract farming on production efficiency and income, using data collected from 423 smallholder vegetable producing households from four districts of East Shewa zone, central rift valley of Ethiopia. The study combines both quantitative and qualitative...
Abstract: Haricot bean is an important pulse crop that plays a vital role in the livelihood of smallholder farmers and the national economy in Ethiopia. This study was initiated to analyze haricot bean market chain in Guba Koricha District, West Hararghe Zone of Oromia National Regional State with the objectives of identifying haricot bean market chain actors, their functions and marketing channels, analyzing structure, conduct and performance of haricot bean market and examining determinant...
Abstract: Ethiopia is at low level of production and consumption of vegetables although the country has favorable climate condition for the production of vegetable crops. Lake Tana basin is one of the most potential vegetable production areas in the country. However, vegetable production in this area is carried out at smallholder level whose production practices are subsistence with low production and marketing infrastructure. This study aimed to examine the production efficiency, market per...
Abstract: Individual interview, own-flock ranking and group animal ranking experiment were implemented to define the breeding objective traits for indigenous goats in the study area. Two districts in Arsi Zone, namely, Honkolo Wabe and Lemu Bilbilo were selected purposively to get appropriate breeding objective. A pre-tested questionnaire was used for the individual interview with randomly selected 120 goat producers, 60 from each district. Indices were calculated to provide the ranking of t...
Abstract: HIV/AIDS reduces farm productivity, increases economic dependency and leads to increased household expenditures. Hence, this study was initiated with the aim of analyzing the impact of HIV/AIDS on the agricultural production efficiency of farm households and identifying factors affecting production efficiency of farm households in the study area. The study was carried out in Kacha-Birra district and data were collected from a total of 100 randomly selected farm households (50 affec...
Abstract: The study was conducted in two districts of Arsi and Bale zones, with the objectives to assess morph metrical differentiation and structural indices for Arsi-Bale sheep breed and to assess sheep breeding and husbandry practices of the communities in the Study Area. The study involved both qualitative and quantitative type of research. A total of 90 indigenous sheep owning farmers for survey and only mature 200 sheep (36 male and 164 non pregnant females) were taken for qualitative ...
Abstract: This study investigates the effect of transaction cost on participation of smallholder farmers in vegetable market and on market channel choice decisions. The empirical analysis was based on primary data collected from 250 sample farm households located in the Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia in 2017. The double hurdle model estimation results show that age, total land size, and distance from asphalt road negatively influenced farmers decision to participate in vegetable marketing. ...
Abstract: xii FARMERS’ WILLINGNESS TO PAY FOR LOCAL WHEAT CONSERVATION: THE CASE IN SYADEBERNA WAYU WOREDA, AMHARA REGIENAL STATE, ETHIOPIA ABSTRACT Ethiopian agriculture is characterized by mainly subsistence and rain fed based agriculture dominated by smallholder farmers. Livelihood of these farmers is highly vulnerable to climate variability every year that contributes to biodiversity loss and food insecurity. Local wheat conservation is crucial to reduce the vulnerability to climate ch...
Abstract: Bread wheat is one of the most important cereal crop produced in almost all agro-ecologies of Ethiopia. Assessment of genetic variability in crop species is one of the major activities of plant breeding which helps to design breeding methods of genotypes for further evaluation to meet the diversified goals.Therefore the field experiment was conducted to estimategenetic variability, association of traits, determining their direct and indirect effecton grain yield and to identify pri...
Abstract: The study was conducted in three districts of Gamo Gofa zone, with the objectives to discriminate the morphological character of different local chicken population and to assess the chicken breeding and husbandry practices of the community in the study area. A total of 180 indigenous chicken owning farmers for survey and 711 chickens (162 male and 549 females) aged greater than 8 months for quantitative study were considered in this study. Descriptive statistics, frequency procedur...
Abstract: Realizing the growing importance of maize in the country’s crop production and food security, significant research efforts have been made to develop high yielding varieties and disseminate to smallholder farmers to enhance food security in the country. The study examined the varietal turnover using farmer self identification and Deoxyribonucleic Acid fingerprinting and determinants of maize cultivars turnover in Ethiopia. Secondary data from the household survey data collected by...
Abstract: The present study was conducted in Fentale and Boset districts, East Shoa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to examine morphometric variation between indigenous cattle breeds of Arsi, Kereyu and their crosses, and to evaluate adaptive, productive (milk yield) and reproductive performance of these cattle breeds, and their crosses in the mid rift valley of Oromia Region. Three PA’s from each district, a total of Six PA (Huluka, Kawa, Barchota, Benti, Kobo and...
Abstract: Diversification of livelihood strategies pursue by rural household is a common strategy to increase households’ income portfolio and reduces vulnerability. Due to sever land scarcity, high population pressure and recurrent drought, farm households in the study area widely engage in and pursue diverse activities as livelihood strategies. Therefore, in this study determinant of rural households' decision to diversify livelihood strategies in Mesela Woreda, Eastern Ethiopia was iden...
Abstract: The study was conducted in Bako Tibe and Dano districts, Oromia, Ethiopia; from January 2016 to January 2018 with the objectives to identify indigenous chicken husbandry and breeding practices and to evaluate the performance of exotic( Sasso, Sasso-RIR and Koekoek) and improved Horro chicken breeds under farmer’s management conditions. Field study and data collections were carried out through a semi-structured questionnaire, focus group discussions with key informants, observatio...
Abstract: This study was initiated with the general objective of analyzing maize and haricot beans value chains in the Adami Tulu Jido Kombolcha and Dugda districts of Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia. The main objectives of the study were to map and identify the actors of the value chains, the structure of costs and incentives among them and to identify determinants of farmers’ participation decision and marketed volume in the study areas. In this study, both primary and secondary data wer...