How Participation in Vegetables Market Affects Livelihoods: Empirical Evidence from Northern Ethiopia
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...Gebrehiwot et al. (2018) also reported that contact with extension agents is significantly improving the livelihood of smallholder producers....
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...Gebrehiwot et al. (2018) reported that total land holding of the household, family size, the volume of vegetables produced and marketed, usage of irrigation technologies, interaction with extension agents, and access to market information and vegetable marketing significantly improve the…...
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...Gebrehiwot et al. (2018) also reported the significant role of access to market information for improving the livelihoods of smallholder producers....
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...play an important role in improving household’s income, nutrition, and food security. Mathew and Todd (2009) noted that the growing demand for local foods is presenting new opportunities for smallholder agricultural producers, but understanding the relative costs and benefits of different local channels is important to maximize farm performance. Since the adoption of the new economic policy in 1991, agricultural markets have been reformed and prices of commodities are determined through market mechanisms (Ethiopian Economics Association, 2004). As a result of such favorable conditions, a large number of smallholder producers are growing a variety of vegetable products for the local market. However, according to Wolday (1994), the performance of agricultural marketing systems in Ethiopia is constrained by several factors such as poor quality of agricultural produce, absence of market facilities, weak extension services that ignore marketing development, poor linkage of research and extension service, lack of marketing information and intelligent services, excessive value and periodic fluctuation, restricted access to credit, and transportation problems....
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...This is in line with the result of Lapar et al., (2003) which underscores a decline in propensity to participate in the market with the rise in the numbers of household members....
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...play an important role in improving household’s income, nutrition, and food security. Mathew and Todd (2009) noted that the growing demand for local foods is presenting new opportunities for smallholder agricultural producers, but understanding the relative costs and benefits of different local channels is important to maximize farm performance....
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...play an important role in improving household’s income, nutrition, and food security. Mathew and Todd (2009) noted that the growing demand for local foods is presenting new opportunities for smallholder agricultural producers, but understanding the relative costs and benefits of different local channels is important to maximize farm performance. Since the adoption of the new economic policy in 1991, agricultural markets have been reformed and prices of commodities are determined through market mechanisms (Ethiopian Economics Association, 2004). As a result of such favorable conditions, a large number of smallholder producers are growing a variety of vegetable products for the local market. However, according to Wolday (1994), the performance of agricultural marketing systems in Ethiopia is constrained by several factors such as poor quality of agricultural produce, absence of market facilities, weak extension services that ignore marketing development, poor linkage of research and extension service, lack of marketing information and intelligent services, excessive value and periodic fluctuation, restricted access to credit, and transportation problems. By supporting marketing issues raised by Wolday, Mulat (2000) also highlighted the factors affecting the Ethiopian agricultural output market such as price variations, high transaction costs, high-risk factors, inadequate transportation networks, limited number of traders with inadequate capital and facilities, high handling costs, inadequate market information systems, weak bargaining power of farmers, and underdeveloped agro-industrial sectors....
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...Kotler (2003) defines marketing as a societal process, by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating, offering, and freely exchanging products and services and value with others....
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...The majority of smallholder farmers in developing countries are located in remote areas with poor infrastructure and they often fail to participate in markets due to the high transaction costs involved (Key et al., 2000; Makhura, 2001; Omamo, 1998)....
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...African markets are typically undercapitalized and inefficient (Fafchamps, 2004; Gabre-Madhin, 2003). Jaleta (2007) also revealed that limited marketing outlets and lack of price information were the major factors that hindered the move from subsistence farming to cash crop production....
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...According to Emana and Gebremedhin (2007), factors such as inadequate markets, low prices, a lot of intermediaries and inadequate marketing institutions, and interaction among farmers make it impossible for small-scale farmers to take part in formal markets....
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...Because of these constraints, smallholder farmers are not getting the right share of the consumer price and they are not producing and selling in an organized manner and as a result part of their benefit may transfer to the middle men (Coleman, 1999). All of these factors reduce their participation in economic transactions and results in subsistence agriculture rather than market-oriented production systems. Farmers make two interrelated decisions, i.e., decision to sell or not to sell (market participation) and to whom to sell (market channel choice). Both decisions are key ingredients for successful marketing and determine the well-being and income to be obtained. This is so because different channels are characterized by different benefits (profitability) and costs. In Malawi, a wide range of indigenous vegetables are grown that play a critical role in the nutrition of the people by providing essential minerals and vitamins that generate some income for smallholders (Mkamanga, 1990). A study made by Bathi and Singh (1993) indicated that their returns JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL FOOD & AGRIBUSINESS MARKETING 109...
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...African markets are typically undercapitalized and inefficient (Fafchamps, 2004; Gabre-Madhin, 2003). Jaleta (2007) also revealed that limited marketing outlets and lack of price information were the major factors that hindered the move from subsistence farming to cash crop production. The majority of smallholder farmers in developing countries are located in remote areas with poor infrastructure and they often fail to participate in markets due to the high transaction costs involved (Key et al., 2000; Makhura, 2001; Omamo, 1998). Makhura and Mokoena (2003) also identified infrastructure, distance to the market, lack of assets (e....
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...Because of these constraints, smallholder farmers are not getting the right share of the consumer price and they are not producing and selling in an organized manner and as a result part of their benefit may transfer to the middle men (Coleman, 1999)....
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