Wheat policy, wheat yield and production in Ethiopia

Shikur, Zewdie Habte

doi:10.1080/23322039.2022.2079586

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“…The yield varies may be due to agroecology response to variety, watering frequency, disease, soil fertility and other management practices. Similar results were reported by Shikur 13 , Amiri et al 42 , Zewde and Purba 43 , Sosibo et al 44 . The improved wheat variety yield response for irrigated and rain-fed production depends on agroecology Araya et al 45 result.…”

Section: Irrigated Wheat Production Practicessupporting

confidence: 88%

“…While, NPSB and urea fertilizer was applied at the rate of 100 and 150 kg haG 1 , respectively. This result shows that the wheat yield and production responses were affected by recommended inputs and methods as well as the time of water application which were in line with Shikur 13 , Li et al 40 , results that stated yield and production responses are affected by policy interventions. The grain yield of irrigated wheat was affected by input rates and methods which is in line with Yuan et al 41 results who, stated that fertilizer rate was a vital factor influencing agriculture yield.…”

Section: Irrigated Wheat Production Practicessupporting

confidence: 82%

“…To ensure this food requirement expansion of agricultural growth and achieving food security through irrigation using the major stable crops is an alternative potential 12 . Wheat stands out as a success of the ambitious agricultural product development goals of the country to improve the food security status of millions of populations 13 .…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Assessment of Irrigated Wheat Production in Western Oromia, Ethiopia: The Case Constraints and Swot Analysis

Degefa¹,

Feyisa²,

Tadese³

2023

Trends in Agricultural Economics

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Background and Objective: The population growth and changing food preferences in Ethiopia have resulted in an increasing demand for wheat which results in the expansion of irrigated wheat production to ensure food self-sufficiency. This expansion of irrigated wheat production for sustainability needs the identification of potential stakeholders with their roles and constraints. Besides, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis is also very important. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted at Jimma, Bunno Bedelle and East Wollega Zones of Western Oromia. Focus group discussions and key informant interviews with farmers, experts and unions were used. Descriptive statistics were employed to analyze the collected data. Results: Further expansion constraints like unavailability of inputs with skyrocketing prices, poor irrigation schemes performance, biotic stresses, insufficient farmersʼ skills and knowledge of the technologies, lack of financial sources, lack of local reliable market and shortage of modern schemes were identified as the major constraints to irrigated wheat production. The SWOT analysis has been done, showing the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of irrigated wheat production. Conclusion: This new initiative knowledge should be useful through developing a regular input supply system, improving farmerʼs skills and knowledge, credit access to farmers, developing modern schemes, developing new disease-resistant varieties and strengthening market linkage by experts, policymakers, researchers and seed enterprise for better orienting investments on irrigated wheat production.

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Section: Irrigated Wheat Production Practicessupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Irrigated Wheat Production Practicessupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Assessment of Irrigated Wheat Production in Western Oromia, Ethiopia: The Case Constraints and Swot Analysis

Degefa¹,

Feyisa²,

Tadese³

2023

Trends in Agricultural Economics

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“…The findings imply that agricultural vertical markets in the control district are imperfectly integrated due to market power and concentration at various stages of supply chains that can be the causes of asymmetric price transmission (Habte et al, 2016; Shikur et al, 2020). Following agricultural market liberalization, Ethiopia's emerging agricultural market structure is characterized by market power (Shikur, 2020, 2022b). Information asymmetry characterizes the relationship between wholesalers and producers, giving the former relative bargaining power.…”

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Competitive agricultural input markets in Ethiopia: Theoretical promises versus reality

Shikur

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Using the agency theory framework to develop conceptual frameworks, this study investigates the main challenges to and potential determinants of competitive agricultural input markets by comparing intervention and control districts. Specifically, this study examines the impact of the Agriculture One‐Stop Shop Project on the competitiveness of agricultural input markets in Ethiopia. The paper uses data collected from farmers and project stakeholders through interviews and focus group discussions and compiles recorded price and quantity sold for each agricultural input for four years. The study employs a content analysis, concentration ratio, market margin, and pooled panel regression models to analyze the set of data. The finding shows the existence of weak innovative system functions that is the mirror of unsatisfactory project outcomes in some intervention areas. Overall, the findings indicate that the project has increased competition by reducing market margins and relative prices, delivering a high quantity of high‐quality agricultural inputs, and providing new services and a range of input choices. An input market's level of competitiveness is determined by contractual arrangements, capital, background, and risk management. An agricultural input market's function system is influenced by the structural composition of the public–private partnership network, coordination, and cooperation. The one‐stop‐shop approach, operationalized through institutional arrangements, has the potential to facilitate and coordinate the functions necessary to change competitiveness in the agricultural input market. This study's panel model results show that the project has had statistically significant effects on the competitiveness of the agricultural input markets. The government should replicate this new approach throughout the country going forward.

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“…Agricultural policies (Shikur 2020a), industrial policies (Shikur et al 2020, Shikur 2020b, irrigation utilization (Shikur 2021a,b), adoption of technology (Shikur 2020a), information asymmetry (Habte et al 2016), sector linkage (Habte et al 2017(Habte et al , 2020, market coordination (Shikur 2021a,b), agricultural product export (Shikur 2022a,b), and labor and capital supply (Shikur 2022c) are cited as influential factors related to agricultural production and productivity at country level. A large body of literature argues that agricultural production substantially depends on climate change (UNFCCC 2007) as well as credit market development (Badibanga, Ulimwengu 2019, Zhu et al 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

Credit market development and agricultural production in selected African countries

Shikur

2023

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This study aimed to examine the long and short-run relationships between credit market development and agricultural production using the Autoregressive Distributed Lags (ARDL) Bounds test for cointegration, as well as the direction of causality by using the Granger causality test. The results of the ARDL Bounds test revealed that institutional credit development had a significant long-run effect on agricultural production in all countries under examination, except for Tunisia; that is: Benin, Kenya, and Nigeria. In the short run, credit market development had a significant and positive effect on agricultural production in Nigeria. By contrast, the effect of credit market development on agricultural production was negative in the short-run in Benin, Kenya, and Tunisia. The result of granger causality test revealed the existence of significant bi-directional causal links between institutional credit development and agricultural production in Benin, Kenya and Nigeria, no significant interdependence was found between the two variables in Tunisia. Capital formation had a significant and positive effect on agricultural production in the long-run and short-run in all countries. Climate change was negatively associated with agricultural production in all countries except for Nigeria. The exchange rates and real interest rates had a negative effect on agricultural production in the long-run and short-run in all countries.

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Wheat policy, wheat yield and production in Ethiopia

Cited by 12 publications

References 22 publications

Assessment of Irrigated Wheat Production in Western Oromia, Ethiopia: The Case Constraints and Swot Analysis

Assessment of Irrigated Wheat Production in Western Oromia, Ethiopia: The Case Constraints and Swot Analysis

Competitive agricultural input markets in Ethiopia: Theoretical promises versus reality

Credit market development and agricultural production in selected African countries

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