April 2016

Review on small holders agriculture commercialization in Ethiopia: What are the driving factors to focused on?

The current Ethiopian economy is based on agriculture and transition from subsistence to commercial agriculture, often referred to as the commercialization of agriculture. Commercialization of agriculture is therefore, the strategy Ethiopia is following to bring dynamic change to transform the traditional agriculture of smallholder farmers. As a result, this paper reviews the literature on smallholder commercialization...

Author(s): Afework Hagos and Endrias Geta

April 2016

Dichotomous dependent variable analysis of farmers’ decision on land utilization: A comparison between probit and linear probability models

The study investigated what drives farmers’ decision not to utilise their land for cultivation. The study utilised data from Statistical Office of Kosovo (SOK) with sample size of 4187 agricultural households. To achieve the objective, distance and transaction costs were examined, controlling for socioeconomic characteristics. The dichotomous dependent variable, dummy=1 if land fallow otherwise=0 was regressed...

Author(s): Ochalibe, A. I., Oboh, V. and Ogah, M. O.

April 2016

Adoption of integrated soil fertility management by groundnut farmers in Eastern Uganda

Access to information and new technologies avails smallholder farmers an opportunity to improve their production decisions. However, access to information on technologies per se may not be relevant if the technologies are not adopted. This study was aimed at determining the factors that enable participants to access information on integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) technologies and to apply these technologies...

Author(s): Jackline Bonabana-Wabbi, Hezron Mogoka, Onesmus Semalulu, Julian Kirinya and Basil Mugonola