Abstract
This study examines vegetable producers’ market participation and sales volume using cross-sectional data obtained from 385 randomly and proportionately sampled households from West Shewa zone, Oromia region of Ethiopia. Heckman two-step procedure was used to analyse the determinants of participation in vegetables markets and volume of sales during the study period. Probit model shows that education level, distance to nearest market, access to irrigation, use of pesticide and participation in any civic organization significantly affect market participation decision. Further, results from ordinary least squares regression show that sex of household head, land size, distance to farmer training centre, access to irrigation, use of pesticide and participation in civic organization significantly affect the level of market participation of the farm households in vegetable markets. The findings imply that support for female households, improving adult based education, participation in civic organization, infrastructure, access to irrigation and improved inputs are a means to increase vegetable production market participation and sales volume in West Shewa, Ethiopia.
Highlights
Vegetable production is an important economic activity in Ethiopia, which ranging from gardening smallholder farming to commercial state and private farms (Bezabih et al, 2015)
This study examines vegetable producers’ market participation and sales volume using cross-sectional data obtained from 385 randomly and proportionately sampled households from West Shewa zone, Oromia region of Ethiopia
Results from ordinary least squares regression show that sex of household head, land size, distance to farmer training centre, access to irrigation, use of pesticide and participation in civic organization significantly affect the level of market participation of the farm households in vegetable markets
Summary
Vegetable production is an important economic activity in Ethiopia, which ranging from gardening smallholder farming to commercial state and private farms (Bezabih et al, 2015). It is taken up about 1.44% of the area under all crops at national level and contributes 2.14% of the total volume of crops produced (CSA, 2016). Depending on availability of land and crop suitability for intercropping, some vegetables are grown either as sole or intercropped with other vegetables or cereals Vegetables such as tomato, potato, beetroot, carrot, cabbage, onion, sweet potato and hot pepper are dominantly grown in Ethiopia. Integrating vegetable production in a farming system has contributed substantially to food and nutrition security as the vegetables complement stable foods for a balanced diet by providing vitamins and minerals (Gani and Adeoti 2011; Afari-sefa and Dinssa, 2015)
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