Abstract
Mung beans are grown widely for use as a human food (as dry beans or fresh sprouts), but can be used as a green manure crop and as forage for livestock. This study assessed the marketing practice and challenges of Mung bean in the Amhara Region, North Shewa Zone. Descriptive analysis techniques were used for conducting this research. From the nine selected districts, 1,350 producers, 115 traders and 10 experts/professionals were taken as a sample using convenience sampling techniques. The interviewer administered questionaire and field observations were employed for the fruit of this study. The finding showed that, although the North Shewa Zone has prospected potential in producing Mung bean and supplied to Ethiopia commodity exchange market, currently its production amount is low due to production and marketing challenges. The unpredictable rainfall, prevalence of pests and diseases, lack of input supply and development, and lack of proper storage and handling were among the identified production challenges. On the other hand, it is identified that low level of local consumption, inappropriate market chain, lack of market information, price impulsiveness, lack of stakeholder’s commitment, limited market promotion and lack of finance were major marketing problems for Mung bean products. In line with this, season and quality were the main determining factors of the price of the product. Lower bargaining power of producers relative to traders makes them to earn less out of it. Key words: Commodity market, Ethiopia commodity exchange, Mung Bean.
Highlights
As the theoretical and practical experiences teach us having efficient domestic agricultural commodity marketing system plays a decisive role in accelerating the growth and development of the agriculture sector
The growth and transformation plan (GTP) of Ethiopia consists of firstly, agricultural Production and Commercialization to strengthen the capacity of farmer organizations and their service providers to scale up best practices and adopt improved technologies in production and processing, and to strengthen marketing and processing of selected commodities through engagement with private sector stakeholders; secondly Small-scale Rural Infrastructure Development and Management to support construction, rehabilitation and/or improvement, management of small-scale rural infrastructure to improve productivity and further develop and increase the efficiency of key value chains through improved access to markets
Based on the 2013 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA), this zone has a total population of 1,837,490, an increase of 17.72% over the 2007 census, of whom 928,694 are men and 908,796 are women
Summary
As the theoretical and practical experiences teach us having efficient domestic agricultural commodity marketing system plays a decisive role in accelerating the growth and development of the agriculture sector. It has verities of climatic zones suitable for the production of a variety of exportable commodities to acquire foreign currency to support its sustainable development in sectors of the economy Together with this the country tries to modernize agricultural marketing in the country; the ECX and ECEA (Ethiopia Commodity Exchange Authority) are playing their pivotal roles to expand the types and quantities of traded commodities like coffee haricot bean, sesame and currently try to register some other commodities through ECX. The growth and transformation plan (GTP) of Ethiopia consists of firstly, agricultural Production and Commercialization to strengthen the capacity of farmer organizations and their service providers to scale up best practices and adopt improved technologies in production and processing, and to strengthen marketing and processing of selected commodities through engagement with private sector stakeholders; secondly Small-scale Rural Infrastructure Development and Management to support construction, rehabilitation and/or improvement, management of small-scale rural infrastructure to improve productivity and further develop and increase the efficiency of key value chains through improved access to markets. The fragmentation of intermediaries between the producer and consumer markets creates a lack of transparency in markets (Ferris and Kaganzi, 2008)
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