Empirical review on determinants of potato and onion production technology packages adoption in Ethiopia

Abstract

Vegetable production technology packages adoption is essential for intensifying its productivity thereby improve the income of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. Analog to vegetable, production adoption of Potato and onion also play a great role in improving the daily livelihood of farmers. However, there are few studies on its technology adoption to encourage farmers to substitute their production methods by modern production techniques and maximize return from the sector. The objective of this review paper is to review determinant factors of vegetable technology package adoption in Ethiopia by using the finding of popular published empirical researches. The findings of the review identified that, adoption of potato and onion technologies in Ethiopia is low due to different constraints caused by demographic factors, socio-economic factors, institutional factors and technological factors. Similarly, different empirical researches which are reviewed by this 0review paper identified different types of potato and onion production technology packages like improved seed varieties, fertilizers, quality seed, irrigation services, crop protection methods, and storing house.As a result of the above combinations of vegetable production technology adoption factors, the expected outcome to be obtained from the sector is still poorly performed. By considering the importance of these potato and onion production technology packages, applying and implementing the procedures of adoption bring the decision to adopt technologies and improve the extent of it thereby sustain potato and onion production in Ethiopia.

Climate Change and Sweet Potato Production; Empirical Insights from Ebonyi State, Nigeria

“…Pests and disease attacks cause mayhem and destruction of planted potato crops (Wassihun et al, 2019). Conclusively all the sweet potato farmers complained of high cost of input materials; this implies that the rising cost of input materials significantly affected sweet potato production of farmers, which means that farmers were unable to get as much needed inputs as expected due to rising cost in input prices (Xiao et al, 2022;Zenbaba, 2021).…”

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“…Accordingly, we hypothesized that large family members, male headed households, educated farmers, obtaining access to irrigation, modern inputs, credit, extension service, and being a member of farm cooperative contribute in the operation of farm activities of onion. Farmers who have an oxen enables them to manage their farm lands, and experienced farmers have better administrative abilities that they can exert to their onion production [11,14,15,17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] and [29]. The socioeconomic variables examined in this study include gender, age, education, labor force, off-farm income, and the number of oxen owned.…”

“…Several studies conducted at global, national, and regional levels have investigated factors influencing onion production, productivity, and technical efficiency. These studies include [11,14,15,17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] and [29]. The studies mentioned above have found that factors such as gender, age, education level, household size, onion purchasing quantity, production experience, land area allocated to onion cultivation, extension services, storage facilities, coordination among producers, access to fertilizers and quality seeds, irrigation services, diseases and pests, plant spacing, soil fertility management practices, and access to credit significantly influence onion production.…”

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“…Accordingly, we hypothesized that large family members, male headed households, educated farmers, obtaining access to irrigation, modern inputs, credit, extension service, and being a member of farm cooperative contribute in the operation of farm activities of onion. Farmers who have an oxen enables them to manage their farm lands, and experienced farmers have better administrative abilities that they can exert to their onion production [11,14,15,17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] and [29]. The socioeconomic variables examined in this study include gender, age, education, labor force, off-farm income, and the number of oxen owned.…”

“…Several studies conducted at global, national, and regional levels have investigated factors influencing onion production, productivity, and technical efficiency. These studies include [11,14,15,17,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] and [29]. The studies mentioned above have found that factors such as gender, age, education level, household size, onion purchasing quantity, production experience, land area allocated to onion cultivation, extension services, storage facilities, coordination among producers, access to fertilizers and quality seeds, irrigation services, diseases and pests, plant spacing, soil fertility management practices, and access to credit significantly influence onion production.…”