The Assessment of Market Participation of Agricultural Product Practices in East & West Gojjam, and Awi Zones

Abstract

Agricultural Market participation means change from subsistence type of production to market oriented with the aim of profit maximization. Market participation is not only the selling of output but it also includes product choice and input use decisions for profit maximization principle.  The objective of this study is to assess the practice of market participation of agricultural products in the three zones of Amahara region which is limited in the rural area small holder farmers. The descriptive research was applied and by review of previous empirical studies, research questionnaires were developed for small holder farmers as a means of data collection. To address the objective of the study, 359 questionnaires were prepared and disturbed actual respondents. The result of the study was analysis through descriptive methods (tabulation, frequency and percentage). Therefore,  most of the respondents were belongs to under the age of 36-50 and 295 respondents were male participants, 334(93%) of respondents were married, 353(98.5%) of the respondents  were orthodox followers,208(57.9%) of the respondents  were illiterate, 124(34.5%) of the respondents have 6-7 family members, 161(26.1%) of the respondents have 25-38 years farm experience, 170(47.4%) of the respondents have less than one Hectare  of land and majority of the products which is produced in the study areas are  teff and maize. Moreover, the Market participation practice in the study areas, 309(86.5%) of the respondents are participated or commercialized & the commercialized product were teff, & average income 8,000-15,000 birr. And also it is triangulated by cross tabulation the Market participation practices. Therefore, the  conclusion of these finding suggest in order to make the farmers fully and effectively engaged on market participation, they have got education because they are illiterate and the framers must be engaged on cash crop which generates cash in short period.

Keywords:  Market participation, Market participation practices, Agricultural products, descriptive analysis, East& West, & Awi zone

DOI: 10.7176/EJBM/12-7-08

Publication date:March 31^st 2020