Impact assessment of adopting improved rice variety on farm household welfare in Ethiopia

Assaye, Abebaw; Habte, Endeshaw; Sakurai, Seiichi; Alemu, Dawit

doi:10.1016/j.jafr.2022.100428

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“…A unit increase in the level of education of male farmers will lead to a 7% increase in the probability that the male farmers will adopt improved crop variety. This also agrees with the findings of Kudi et al 2011;Abadi et al 2015and Assaye et al 2022. Chete et al 2021 noted that the level of education contributes to farmers' knowledge and helps in deciding whether to adopt it or not.…”

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Gender-based analysis of risk management and improved technology adoption among small-scale maize farmers in Kwara State

Ayinde,

Olarewaju,

Chimeze

et al. 2023

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This study examines the gender-based analysis of risk management strategies and improved technology adoption among small-scale maize farmers in Kwara State, Nigeria. The specific objectives are to: compare the risk management strategies by gender; analyze the gender-based effect of the adoption of improved varieties on output and evaluate factors influencing the adoption of improved technologies among male and female farmers in the study area. A random sampling procedure was used to select a total of 250 male and female farmers in the study area. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain the data for the study. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Propensity score matching, and logit model. The findings of the study were that: early planting was the most common risk management strategy among the men (79.86%) and women (73.12%) farmers followed by diversification, use of improved varieties and bush fallowing. The result also showed that the adoption of improved varieties increased the yield (productivity) of both male and female farmers. The factors influencing the adoption of improved among the men farmers include extension access, educational level, output and labour while for the women farmers, the price of improved seed, output, herbicide and credit availability were the factors that significantly influenced their adoption of improved varieties. The study recommended that the price of the improved seed should be made affordable for women farmers, information sharing should be encouraged among male farmers and the government should empower extension agents in sensitizing farmers on risk management strategies especially the adoption of improved crop varieties and diversification into other agricultural related activities towards improving their livelihood.

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Section: Disaggregated Determinants Of Adoption Of Improved Variety F...supporting

confidence: 89%

Gender-based analysis of risk management and improved technology adoption among small-scale maize farmers in Kwara State

Ayinde,

Olarewaju,

Chimeze

et al. 2023

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“…The case country that this paper investigate is Ethiopia. This country is highly dependent on agriculture that generates 32.8% of the country's GDP, produces 90% of exports, and employment for 72.7% of the total population (Assaye et al, 2022). Even though the process of development is extremely complex and difficult to attribute to a single element of it, one might still say that development of this country is mostly about agricultural development.…”

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An Investigation on the Components of the Living Standards: Evidence from Ethiopia

KARAPINAR KOCAĞ

2023

Uluslararası Ekonomi Ve Yenilik Dergisi

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Adaption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in 2015 by United Nations member states is an urgent call for action to improve human lives while protecting environment. As any other developed and developing members, Ethiopia is also expected to response the call for action. Ethiopia is a country with high dependency on rain-fed agriculture, severe drought as a result of climate change and wrong human action, widespread poverty, and high dependency on humanitarian aid which requires a careful investigation to deal with its problematic situations. This paper offers a household level investigation on the components of living standards or welfare in Ethiopia, utilising COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey of Households 2020. Findings suggest that living area, ownership of dwelling, Access to water and electricity, having a rental income, and the number of household members significantly associated with the level of consumption, that are expected to provide guidance for policy makers.

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“…Rice was introduced to Ethiopia in 1970s to tackle food insecurity problems in the resettlement area of Ethiopia particularly Benshangul Gumuz, Amhara and Gambella region during the derg regim [3]. After introduction of rice to the country, its expansion was tremendous and covers almost in all part of the country since 1990s that reached more than half part of the country namely, Amhara, Benshangul Gumuz, Oromia, Tigray and southern and Gambella regions.…”

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“…To pace the rice sector, the government of Ethiopia(GE) launched a rice research centers during the late of 1990s at Abobo and Pawe Agriculture research centers. In addition to these research centers, it expands to Amhara region (fogera National Rice and Training centers), Beneshangul Gumuz (Assosa), Afar (Werer), Southern Region (Hawassa), and Tigray region (Shire May-Tsebri rice research centers) [3]. Hence to improve and enhance the rice production and productivity, these research centers released about 43 new improved rice varieties and disseminated to end users to enhance smallholder farmers rice production, productivity and incomes at household levels.…”

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Impact of Improved Rice Variety Adoption on Smallholder Farmers Rice Productivity and Gross Farm Income Enhancement in North Western Ethiopia

Tesfay,

Woundiferaw

2024

IJAE

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The research was assessed status of adopting improved rice technology as well as evaluate its impact on rice productivity and gross farm income in Ethiopia. The research showed the importance of adopting improved rice technologies using impact evaluating techniques such as propensity scoring matching (PSM). The research was used descriptive and econometric methods of data analysis to elaborate the respondents’ characteristics, farming practices, adoption status and to estimate its impact. The research used multistage sampling methods to select 180 smallholder rice producers. Amhara and Benshangul Gumuz region are the potential rice producers which targeted for this study. Zones, districts and kebles of these regions were selected random that can be represent the region as well as the rice producers in Ethiopia. The research revealed that 44.44% of the respondents were adopted improved rice technology and pawe_1 is the most frequently used by respondents. The econometric result revealed that treated groups were gained high rice output 3,019.70 quintal per hectare over the controlled groups 1,971.40 quintal per hectare as well as in terms of gross income treated groups were earned higher income which is 46,159.78 ETHB than the controlled groups which were earned 29,797.14 ETHB on average. This indicated that adopting improved rice technology was brought 34.72% and 35.45% of increment in rice productivity and gross income on smallholders’ rice producers respectively. Adopting of agricultural technologies are a means of improving the smallholder farmers crop production, productivities and income generated from that farm activities. Therefore, any governmental and non-governmental institution should be focused on the outreach of these agricultural technologies to end user over all part of the country.

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Impact assessment of adopting improved rice variety on farm household welfare in Ethiopia

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Gender-based analysis of risk management and improved technology adoption among small-scale maize farmers in Kwara State

Gender-based analysis of risk management and improved technology adoption among small-scale maize farmers in Kwara State

An Investigation on the Components of the Living Standards: Evidence from Ethiopia

Impact of Improved Rice Variety Adoption on Smallholder Farmers Rice Productivity and Gross Farm Income Enhancement in North Western Ethiopia

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