Determinants that Affecting the Production of Haricot Bean by Small Holder Farmers in Oromia Region of Ethiopia

Alemayehu Keba

Abstract


Haricot bean is an important crop, which serves as a consumption and source of income, but its production and productivity is low. So this study aimed to analyze the factor affecting haricot bean producer small holder farmers Oromia regional state of Ethiopia. The data for the analysis were obtained from the World Bank data published on their website in 2018. The result of the log linear regression shows it is possible to increase production of haricot bean by increasing the supply of seed, fertilizer, education, total income, family size and land size  these variables citrus-paribus significantly influence production positively but price of  significantly influences small holder farmers production of haricot bean negatively. The policy implications of the present findings are to have educating the small holder farmers, encouraging using educated family, providing access haricot bean seed for small holder producer farmers, setting minimum procurement price for inputs and providing input subsidies, ease delivery of inputs, encouraging and training ways allocating land for different haricot bean crop, diversified income sources should be created in order to increase income of the farmers. The Government, MoA, Regional Agricultural office, Zonal and woreda’s Agricultural office, NGO, Researchers and scholars are needed to further promote production of improved haricot bean by designing based on farmer’s problem and need

Keywords: Log linear, Haricot bean, production, Oromia, Ethiopia

DOI: 10.7176/JNSR/14-4-01

Publication date: February 28th 2023


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ISSN (Paper)2224-3186 ISSN (Online)2225-0921

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