Revealing determinants that affects garlic production in Ethiopia using PRISMA methodology

Abstract

Today, garlic productivity in Ethiopia is below its potential which is ranked 15 in the world. This is due to numerous determinants that affect garlic production. Therefore, the study’s main objective was to reveal and sum up determinants affecting garlic production in Ethiopia using PRISMA Method. Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis checklist s1 table were employed. Universally accredited and indexed high-quality databases and university libraries; specifically, Scopus, PubMed, Science Direct, University of Toronto Library, and Google Scholar were used for retrieving published data (2000–2022). The titles “Garlic” and Ethiopia” were used to retrieve articles. “Microsoft Excel” was used to summarize results. The present study indicated that a total of 12,000 publications from Google scholar, and 51 publications from the University of Toronto library search engine published on the web of science and Scopus were used. A total of 51 publications were chosen as being the most suitable for this paper. Among the 51 publications, 86%, 6%, 6%, and 2% were articles, Newsletter articles, Text resources, and conference proceedings, respectively. Accordingly, a study revealed that the low production of this crop is due to information obtained via a systematic review discussed and categorized as institutional determinants (15.69%), farmers’ characteristics (9.8%), production and management practice (68.63%), and postharvest (5.88%). Institutional; production and management practices are of the major determinants negatively affecting garlic production in Ethiopia. Moreover, research limitations also were revealed. The recommendation of this paper is therefore not general, specifically, each factor has been recommended.