Factors Determining Market Supply of Chickpea in Gondar Zuria Woreda, ANRS, Ethiopia

Jemberu Tarekegn Asmare

doi:10.11648/j.sjbm.20190701.11

Abstract

Chickpea is important for its contribution to enhance food security and as source of cash income for a large proportion of the rural households ever. Among the pulses growing in the Woreda, Chickpea is the major crop both in terms of volume of production and area cultivated. It is also the major source of cash income to the farmers among the crops grown in the area. However, enhancing chickpea farmers to reach markets is a key issue needed in the study area. This study was aimed to analyze factors determining market supply of chickpea at farm household level using the data collected from randomly selected 123 farmers. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics and Robust Ordinary Least Square regression model. The results of econometric analysis showed that productivity of chickpea, size of land allocated for chickpea production, lagged price, education level of household head and year of experience in chickpea production of the household head positively and significantly affected chickpea market supply at farm household level. Based on the study results, policy interventions like encouragement of the concerned body to increase the productivity of chickpea, strengthening access to education, strengthening trainings are required.

Highlights

Ethiopia has a suitable climatic and edaphic conditions for the production of good quality Desi and Kabuli chickpeas
Econometric analysis was used to identify factors determining at farm household level supply of chickpea to the market in Gondar Zuria Woreda
Among the 11 hypothesized variables only five variables namely productivity of chickpea in 2015/16, size of land allocated for chickpea production, lagged price, education level and year of experience in chickpea production of the household head were found to be the significant and positive factors that determine the market supply of chickpea at household level (Table 7)

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Introduction

Ethiopia has a suitable climatic and edaphic conditions for the production of good quality Desi and Kabuli chickpeas It has the area coverage of 282,216.28ha and production of 4,963,027.78 quintals in the Country [1]. Chickpea (Cicerarietinum), locally known as shimbra, is one of the major pulse crops (including faba bean, field pea, haricot bean, lentil and grass pea) in Ethiopia and in terms of production it is the second most important legume crop after faba beans. It contributed about 17.6% of the total pulse production during 2014. Most of the chickpea is cultivated under rain fed conditions [3]

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