Review on Economic Efficiency of Vegetable Production in Ethiopia

Dagmawe Menelek Asfaw; Abdurhman Kedir Ali

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Review on Economic Efficiency of Vegetable Production in Ethiopia

Dagmawe Menelek Asfaw, Abdurhman Kedir Ali

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Vegetables are important as a source of micronutrients for human nutrition, a means of income, food security, employment, and foreign exchange. In Ethiopia, most of the soil types suited for fruits and vegetables producing regions of the country range from light clay to loam and are well suited for horticultural production. However, the production in Ethiopia does not meet the need of the country's population for vegetable products, and/or the production levels of vegetables are still far below their potential, in general, there was inefficiency in the production of vegetables. The main objective of this paper was to review the determinant and level of vegetable efficiencies in Ethiopia. Based on the reviewing of the studies, basic determinants of vegetable efficiencies in Ethiopia were:- age, sex, education, family size, ownership of livestock, experience, frequency of extension contact, training, membership in a farmers’ association, participation in off/non-farm income, credit access, land fragmentation, seed type, farm to home distance, distance to the nearest market and soil fertility, access to transportation, land slope and distance to extension service. The level of technical, allocative, and economic efficiencies was highly variable between vegetable farmers and the mean level of all efficiencies-all most below the required level (inefficient). Based on such findings we have been recommended:- enhance farmer education, offer training and extension service, provide access to credit, encourage the farmer to participated in off-farm income and farmer association members, built market, extension service, and farmer training center around.

Published in	Advances (Volume 3, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.advances.20220301.14
Page(s)	16-24
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Vegetables, Technical Efficiency, Allocative Efficiency, Economic Efficiency, Ethiopia

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Dagmawe Menelek Asfaw

Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia
Abdurhman Kedir Ali

Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia

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