Abstract
This study examines the impact of adoption of improved maize technology package (including improved maize varieties, fertilizer of any kind as well as row planting) on maize yield growth of Ethiopia at national level. In so doing, a balanced panel data set covering two time periods was used and propensity score matching in combination with a difference-in-differences estimator was employed to better match control and project units on preprogram observable characteristics and to control for certain types of unobserved variables which can be assumed to remain fixed over a shorter time series. It is found that that adoption of improved maize technology package had positive and significant impact on maize yield growth of Ethiopia at national level. Therefore, this study recommends to widely scale-up the efficient use of improved maize varieties in combination with other complementary inputs and agronomic practices to all maize producing farm households which obviously calls for embracing the enormous diversity of the production systems as well as a well-coordinated, effective as well as efficient effort of all of the relevant stakeholders of the agricultural sector of the country including farmers supported with a major recommitment to effective overall management of so many facets of the economic environment. Keywords: Impact, Maize, Improved Varieties, Fertilizer, Row Planting, Ethiopia DOI: 10.7176/JESD/11-23-01 Publication date: December 31 st 2020
Highlights
80 percent of Africa’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty (Haggblade, 2004)
With a wider range of institutional options available, more evaluation is needed of what works well in what contexts (World Bank, 2007). In response to this need, the objective of this study is to identify the impact of adoption of improved maize technology package on maize yield of Ethiopia at national level
This study is undertaken to identify the impact of adoption of improved maize technology package on maize yield growth of Ethiopia at national level
Summary
80 percent of Africa’s poor live in rural areas, and even those who do not will depend heavily on increasing agricultural productivity to lift them out of poverty (Haggblade, 2004). Farm productivity and production costs largely determine the prices of basic food stuffs, which account for 60–70 percent of total consumption expenditures by low-income groups (Haggblade, 2004). The Sub-Saharan Africa agriculture involves diverse crops and livestock but productivity is important for cereals and starchy roots, which provide two-thirds of the total energy intake for the population (three-quarters for the poor) (AGRA, 2013 citing Diao, Thurlow, Benin, & Fan, 2012). According to the Africa Human Development Report 2012 (United Nations Development Programme [UNDP], 2012), more than 75% of cereals and almost all root crops come from domestic agriculture and not imports (AGRA, 2013)
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