Abstract
This Research was conducted to examine the determinant of agricultural output in Doba woreda. The objective of the study was to identify the major determinants of agricultural output in the study area. In order to achieve this objective, the study used both primary and secondary source of data. The primary data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. The secondary data was collected from agricultural office of the woreda and from other documents. The sampling technique was random sampling method with sample size of 100 respondents. The collected data was analyzed and interpreted using descriptive statistics. The majority farmers of the woreda live with large family size, small and fragmented land, large number of illiteracies, use traditional method of farming, and low female participation in the agricultural activities which lead agricultural productivity low. To avoid such problems, the woreda administration should be provide subsidy, credit with low interest rate, give training to illiterate to the farmers and also appreciate to use irrigation to avoid rainfall uncertainty. Keywords: Agriculture, determinant and output DOI: 10.7176/JESD/12-9-05 Publication date: May 31 st 2021
Highlights
Agriculture is the world most important sector. It provides with all our food, raw material for most of agro based industries and create important opportunity to large population of developing countries
As one of developing countries in the world Ethiopian agriculture sector accounts for about 43 percent of national gross demotic product (GDP),90persent of export and 86perent of employment (ADB, 2016)
Based on historical experience of western countries, economic development was seen as requiring a rapid structural transformation of the economy from one predominantly focused on agricultural activities to a more complex modern industrial and service society
Summary
Agriculture is the world most important sector It provides with all our food, raw material for most of agro based industries and create important opportunity to large population of developing countries. The role of agriculture in economic development has been viewed as a passive and supportive. Based on historical experience of western countries, economic development was seen as requiring a rapid structural transformation of the economy from one predominantly focused on agricultural activities to a more complex modern industrial and service society. Agriculture’s primary role was to provide sufficient low-price food and man power to the expanding industrial economy which was thought to be the dynamic leader sector in any overall strategy of economic development (Todaro, 2016)
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