Abstract
In the Ethiopia crop agriculture, pillar in balancing the food diet of the majority people, as a whole and the cereals specifically is facing serious and vast challenges which in turn affect the supply of food grains. Various research institutes in Ethiopia have revealed several factors which affect crop production over the past three decades, but their findings are not synthesized into a whole and difficult to access as such. This study attempts to review various existing research findings and present them holistically. The most common factors are lack of more recently introduced improved seeds, initial capital for investment, loss of cropland, labor, pesticides, invasive alien species, farm storage techniques, methods of small scale irrigation, and religious and cultural challenges. Thorough understanding these constraints, researchers and policy makers can make useful recommendations to crop growers’ on farm improvement system and not on how to devastate well designed sustainable crop production systems. Succinct and collated scientific information would help to shade light on the best standards to overcome most factors affecting crop production and enhance the productivity and quality of crops. Moreover, this paper offers more implications and recommendations for various stakeholders in Ethiopian and similar contexts.
Highlights
Over the world food grain supply is considerably less than the demand of the majority of people
Factors of Crop Production Based on Production Function 3.1 Land and Crop Production In Ethiopia, land policy has long been considered as a major obstacle to economic development, hampering production, productivity and income of rural farm households
The majority of people that depend on rain fed for crop agriculture production and left behind as a poor are resides in sub Saharan Africa which includes Ethiopia. (Burniy & Naylov, 2012) stated that crop yield in sub Saharan African lowland is influenced by the variability of weather conditions in the area
Summary
Over the world food grain supply is considerably less than the demand of the majority of people. There has been generous increase in cereal crop production as far as cultivated land increase since 2000, yet yields are low by worldwide standards, and generally speaking the productivity is exceedingly prone to climate stuns, especially dry seasons Along these lines, raising productivity levels and lessening their inconstancy are fundamental parts of enhancing sustenance security in Ethiopia, both to help guarantee sufficient nourishment accessibility and to increment rustic family unit wages (IFPRI, 2011).
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