Abstract
Sorghum is the most important cereal crop in the Ethiopia for home consumption and for marketing. Previous studies have indicated that farm production and productivity can possibly be raised by allocating more area for production, by developing and adopting of new technologies, and/or by utilizing the available resources more efficiently. Increasing productivity through enhanced sorghum production efficiency could be an important move towards food security. In Ethiopia sorghum production levels and rates have been increasing due to the development and dissemination of improved sorghum technologies. Despite these efforts by the government, smallholders’ sorghum productivity has remained below potential. However, empirical studies conducted to estimate level of efficiencies and to identify its determining factors in sorghum production which would guide policy makers in their efforts are sparse. The main objective of this review is assessing the determinants of technical efficiency in sorghum production in Ethiopia. In these review factors like farm plot, age, education, and distance to all weather roads, livestock holding, participation in soil and water conservation activities, Knowledge about land policy, off-farm and investment on fertilizers, frequency of extension contact, share cropping credit access, crop diversification, and. The sorghum farms were being operated below level of technical efficiency. This implies that a large number of sorghum farms in the Ethiopia faced inefficiency problems. Keywords : Sorghum, Technical efficiency, Determinants, Ethiopia DOI: 10.7176/JESD/11-9-07 Publication date: May 31 st 2020
Highlights
1.1 Background of the review According to IFAD, (2013) result shows, agriculture is important for comprehensive development because it produces food as well as economic wealth for many of the world's lowliest people that allows for improved livelihoods through better health care, education, infrastructure improvements and greater investment in environmentally sound practices
2.4 Factor Affecting Technical Efficiency of Sorghum Production in Ethiopia According to Shumet (2011) survey result of the estimated stochastic frontier production function revealed that education of household heads, family literacy, family size, share cropping, credit access, crop diversification, and land fertility were found to have a positive and significant effect on efficiency
It is found that smallholder sorghum farmers are inefficient in resources used in the production of sorghum in the county
Summary
1.1 Background of the review According to IFAD, (2013) result shows, agriculture is important for comprehensive development because it produces food as well as economic wealth for many of the world's lowliest people that allows for improved livelihoods through better health care, education, infrastructure improvements and greater investment in environmentally sound practices. Production and productivity can be boosted either through increased use of inputs and/or improvement in technology or by improving the efficiency of producers or firms, given fixed level of inputs and technology (Solomon-Bizuayehu-Wassie, 2014). According to FAO (2011) as cited by Solomon-Bizuayehu-Wassie,(2014) the average cereal yield for the world and least developing countries were 37.08 qt/ha and 20.19 qt/ha, respectively, the average cereal yield in Ethiopia was limited to 17.60 qt/ha. The existing domain research and development efforts were so far seem to be unable to give the full empirical explanation as why small holders farmer in Ethiopia usually fail to give more about technical efficiency of sorghum production and way of improve production and productive to recommended them to the technology user farmers
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