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Increasing agricultural production is essential to improving food availability and farm household incomes in developing economies. This study investigated the dynamic supply responses of major cereal crops to price and nonprice factors in Ethiopia using the Ethiopian Rural Household Survey (ERHS) panel dataset from 1994 to 2009. According to the Nerlovian expectation and adjustment approach in conjunction with the system GMM (generalized method of moments) estimator, both the planted areas and produced yields of major crops (teff, wheat, and barley) are influenced by price and nonprice factors in Ethiopia. The supply of major cereal crops is affected positively by their own prices and negatively by the prices of substitute crops. Nonprice factors such as education, farm size, fertilizer, land quality, and precipitation also affect supply of major cereals. Both the short-term and long-term acreage and yield response elasticities of teff and barley are positive. Moreover, the adjustment coefficients are positive for teff, barley, and wheat. The results suggest that Ethiopian farmers are capable of analyzing market signals and responding positively to price increases of staple crops. The findings also imply that the Ethiopian agricultural sector has been responsive to the cereal price increases observed since 2006. The remarkable growth of Ethiopian agriculture over recent decades is partly explained by the increase in agricultural prices. This study recommends that a fine-tuned balance between government interventions and market solutions is important, in addition to improving farmers’ agronomic practices, for increasing agricultural production.
Anbes Tenaye. New Evidence Using a Dynamic Panel Data Approach: Cereal Supply Response in Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia. Economies 2020, 8, 61 .
AMA StyleAnbes Tenaye. New Evidence Using a Dynamic Panel Data Approach: Cereal Supply Response in Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia. Economies. 2020; 8 (3):61.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnbes Tenaye. 2020. "New Evidence Using a Dynamic Panel Data Approach: Cereal Supply Response in Smallholder Agriculture in Ethiopia." Economies 8, no. 3: 61.
The efficient use of inputs is indispensable in many developing countries, such as Ethiopia. This study assesses the level and determinants of technical efficiency of smallholder farmers using the true fixed effects (TFE) model. The TFE model separates inefficiency from unobserved heterogeneity. Empirical data come from four rounds of panel data (1994–2009) from the Ethiopian rural household survey (ERHS). A one-step maximum likelihood estimator was employed to estimate the Cobb-Douglas stochastic frontier production function and factors influencing technical efficiency. The results indicated that the major variables affecting technical efficiency are policy responsive, albeit to varying degrees: education of the household head, family size, farm size, land fragmentation, land quality, credit use, extension service, off-farm employment, and crop share. The analyses also identify variables amenable to policy changes in the production function: labor, traction power, farm size, seeds, and fertilizer. The mean household-level efficiency for the surveyed farmers is 0.59, indicating that farmers could improve technical efficiency. This implies that smallholder farms in Ethiopia can reduce the input requirement of producing the average output by 41% if their operations become technically efficient. This study recommends that the above policy variables be considered to make Ethiopian smallholder farmers more efficient.
Anbes Tenaye. Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: The Case of Ethiopia. Economies 2020, 8, 34 .
AMA StyleAnbes Tenaye. Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: The Case of Ethiopia. Economies. 2020; 8 (2):34.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnbes Tenaye. 2020. "Technical Efficiency of Smallholder Agriculture in Developing Countries: The Case of Ethiopia." Economies 8, no. 2: 34.
Tenaye Anbes. Sources of productivity growth in Ethiopian agriculture. African Journal of Agricultural Research 2020, 15, 19 -32.
AMA StyleTenaye Anbes. Sources of productivity growth in Ethiopian agriculture. African Journal of Agricultural Research. 2020; 15 (1):19-32.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTenaye Anbes. 2020. "Sources of productivity growth in Ethiopian agriculture." African Journal of Agricultural Research 15, no. 1: 19-32.
Anbes Tenaye Kidane; E. Geta. ANALYSIS OF VULNERABILITY AND DETERMINANTS OF ENSET PRODUCTION IN WOLAITA, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA. Acta Horticulturae 2009, 663 -668.
AMA StyleAnbes Tenaye Kidane, E. Geta. ANALYSIS OF VULNERABILITY AND DETERMINANTS OF ENSET PRODUCTION IN WOLAITA, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA. Acta Horticulturae. 2009; (806):663-668.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAnbes Tenaye Kidane; E. Geta. 2009. "ANALYSIS OF VULNERABILITY AND DETERMINANTS OF ENSET PRODUCTION IN WOLAITA, SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA." Acta Horticulturae , no. 806: 663-668.