Economic performance of community based bean seed production and marketing in the central rift valley of Ethiopia

Tebeka, Y.A.; Katungi, Enid; Rubyogo, Jean-Claude; Sserunkuuma, Dick; Kidane, Tsion T.

doi:10.4314/acsj.v25i2.5

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“…Even though the formal government sector takes a larger share of improved seed dissemination, still most of the farmers used seed from informal seed systems, including own-saved seed, exchanges with neighbors, and local seed markets. A study by Tebeka et al (2017) also identified three seed sources namely formal, informal, and farmer based one in central rift valley Ethiopia.…”

Section: Access and Source Of Improved Crop Seedmentioning

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Assessment of improved crop seed utilization status in selected districts of Southwestern Ethiopia

Tarekegn

Mogiso

2020

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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In Ethiopia, seed is a key input for improving crop production and productivity. Despite its role, several improved crop seeds has been limitedly used by the majority of farmers in Southwestern Ethiopia. Thus, the objective of this study was to asses the status of improved crop seed utilization in the selected districts of southwestern Ethiopia. Data from120 sampled farmers were selected by multistage sampling producers and analyzed by descriptive statistics. Based on a field survey, the major crop seeds like wheat, maize, and common bean were utilized in the study area. With regards to land allocations, only 30% out of a land under major crops were allocated for improved seeds. The result also reveals that about 35% per hectare loss in productivity due to the utilization of local seed. Unaffordable prices of improved seed, limited financial capacity, lack of improved seed timely, and lack of credit seeds and fertilizer were the major constraints affecting utilizing improved seed in the study area. Therefore, the concerned bodies should focus on increasing the availability of improved seeds on time and affordable prices. Also adjusting credit facility and strengthen the overall seed system to meet the huge demand is suggested. Kassa Tarekegn ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kassa Tarekegn was former research staff of Bonga Agricultural Research Center Southern Agricultural Research Institute for about six years up to 30 October 2019. He conducted different researches on value chain analysis of crop and livestock products, production system analysis, productivity and efficiency of crop, adoption and impact evaluation of different interventions and valuation resources. Currently, he is a Socioeconomics researcher at Arba Minch Agricultural Research Center of the same institute starting from November, 2019.

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Section: Access and Source Of Improved Crop Seedmentioning

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Assessment of improved crop seed utilization status in selected districts of Southwestern Ethiopia

Tarekegn

Mogiso

2020

Cogent Food & Agriculture

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“…The research design for this paper draws on collaborative and market‐led approaches that embrace legume variety dissemination and use by smallholder farmers in SSA and SA. It has been proven that the partnership between farmers, national agricultural research programs, the private seed producers and grain traders enhanced the sustainability and the adoption of new improved chickpea and beans varieties in Ethiopia (Ojiewo et al, ; Tebeka, Katungi, Rubyogo, Sserunkuuma, & Kidane, ). Collaborative research has been framed as an approach that engages most stakeholders in the research processes from problem definition to intervention design and implementation, to joint assessment and decision to implement at scale (Buruchara et al, ).…”

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Market‐led options to scale up legume seeds in developing countries: Experiences from the Tropical Legumes Project

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There are several hurdles to ensure sustainable seed production and consistent flow of improved legume varieties in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA). The unreliable demand, autogamous nature of most of the grain legumes, and slow variety replacement rate by smallholder farmers do not provide strong incentive for private seed companies to invest in legume seed business. Unless a well thought‐out and comprehensive approach to legume seed delivery is developed, current seed shortages will continue, eroding emerging market opportunities. The experiences reported here are collated through a 10‐year partnership project, the Tropical Legumes in SSA and SA. It fostered innovative public–private partnerships in joint testing of innovative market‐led seed systems, skills and knowledge enhancement, de‐risking private sector initiatives that introduced in new approaches and previously overlooked entities in technology delivery. As new public and private seed companies, individual seed entrepreneurs and farmer organizations emerged, the existing ones enhanced their capacities. This resulted in significant rise in production, availability and accessibility of various seed grades of newly improved and farmer demanded legume varieties in the target countries.

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“…Community based quality declare seed enterprises have also been widely promoted as part of MSPs and a new seed subsystem for supplying new bean variety seed to farmers in geographical areas not served by the formal seed sub-system (Tebeke et al, 2017). Research has shown that community based bean seed enterprises are pro table and have a potential to deliver bean seed in marginal areas (Katungi et al, 2011;Munyaka et al, 2017;Tebeka et al, 2017).…”

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How do multi-stakeholder partnerships influence access to quality bean seed and variety turnover? Lessons from Burundi and Zimbabwe

Aseete

Katungi

2023

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Background Crop breeding is an important pathway for increasing the yield potential and one of the strategies used to adapt smallholder agriculture to climate change in developing countries. Genetic gains, however, go to waste if farmers do not access modern varieties at the right time (before seed deteriorates) and pace. Ensuring fast, prompt, and sustained access to quality bean seed, just like seed of other leguminous crops, has however been a challenge in Sub Saharan Africa. The autogamous nature of the bean crop makes sustaining seed supply and demand hard. This therefore calls for innovative approaches among bean seed value chain actors to deliver quality seed of targeted varieties. One such approach is the use of Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs). Methods In this study, we assess the impacts of MSPs on seed access, quality of seed, and variety turnover measured as the Area Weighted Age of the Variety (AWAVA). These MSPs were created in Burundi and Zimbabwe to improve the performance of the bean seed system by facilitating access to quality seed. To show the average treatment effect on the treated, the study used the endogenous treatments effects estimator under the control function framework and the change in change and difference in difference framework for Zimbabwe because we had pre and post treatment data. Results Our findings show that the MSP was associated with significant improvement in ranges of 27 -42% more access to seed of improved bean varieties among intervention communities. Also residing in an intervention area was associated with a 65% reduction in distance to bean seed markets. Results further revealed that the MSP approach could be associated with a reduction of the AWAVA of improved varieties grown by 4.4 years among high-intensive intervention groups in Burundi and by 5.2 years for Zimbabwe. Farmers in Burundi were also generally satisfied with production, market and consumption traits of varieties supplied. Conclusions Our results show that using a multi partner-based seed system approach coupled with supply of quality seed of superior varieties, capacity building, and promotion efforts lead to better seed access outcomes at farm level. These findings imply that MSPs can be an effective tool for delivering new varieties of legume crops to farmers, and thus reduce varietal turnover.

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Economic performance of community based bean seed production and marketing in the central rift valley of Ethiopia

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Assessment of improved crop seed utilization status in selected districts of Southwestern Ethiopia

Assessment of improved crop seed utilization status in selected districts of Southwestern Ethiopia

Market‐led options to scale up legume seeds in developing countries: Experiences from the Tropical Legumes Project

How do multi-stakeholder partnerships influence access to quality bean seed and variety turnover? Lessons from Burundi and Zimbabwe

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