Economics of Groundnut Production in East Hararghe Zone of Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Abstract

Groundnut is one the five widely cultivated oilseed crops in Ethiopia. However, the subsector has been overlooked yet by development program interventions and analysis of its technical as well as economic is lacking far behind. Hence, this study presents of groundnut production in East Hararghe zone of Oromia regional state. It focuses on technical relationships between groundnut output and different inputs, economic resources use efficiency and cost benefit analysis. The result for the generated from 86 randomly sampled groundnut farm households at different stage by means of structured and semi-structured questionnaire. From the total of seven explanatory variables to be estimated by using Cobb-Douglas function, quantity of seed labor and livestock in tropical livestock unit were significant at different significance level and they showed positive effect on groundnut output. The economic efficiency of resource used showed the seed, fertilizer and labor were underutilized and land was over utilized.

Effect of Lime and Phosphorus on Yield and Yield Components of Groundnut Varieties [<i>Arachis hypogaea</i> L.] on Acidic Soil in Nedjo District, Western Ethiopia

“…This indicates that there is big difference between the mean level of productivity of farmers and the yield per hectare of the different varieties of groundnut released at different times. To date, most of the research done on groundnut in the country is mainly on the development of improved varieties [18]. However, in western Wollega there is constraint of low soil fertility and lack of fertilizer recommendation for groundnut as one of the major production constraints in the country has remained one of the greatest impediments to bridging the gap between potential and harvested yields.…”

Participatory variety selection of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Taricha Zuriya district of Dawuro Zone, southern Ethiopia

“…About two-thirds of the world's groundnut seeds serve for the production of oil which is used for cooking, salad oils, and margarine, and lower quality oils are used in soap manufacture ( Pradhan, 2011 ). Groundnut is one of the five oil crops widely cultivated in Ethiopia ( Kudama, 2013 ) by the traditional farming communities in rain-fed conditions.…”

Image processing system for identifying groundnut plant disease

“…Groundnut is the second most significant oilseed plant in the warm lowland zone of Ethiopia (Kebede et al, 2017). This plant is cultivated in a different part of the country from those regions East Hararghe zone of Oromiya Regional State produces a large amount of groundnut in the country (Kudama, 2013). However, groundnut production in Ethiopia is highly restricted by several biotic and abiotic factors.…”