Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia

In Ethiopia, the fishery sector plays an important role to improve food security, employment creation, income generation and poverty reduction. Despite the economic importance of fish farming at the household and national level, farm households have paid little attention to the sector in the study a...

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Main Authors: Birara Endalew, Melese Zeleke, Workneh Yenewa, Zemen Ayalew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-01-01
Series:Cogent Food & Agriculture
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2020.1728107
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author Birara Endalew
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description In Ethiopia, the fishery sector plays an important role to improve food security, employment creation, income generation and poverty reduction. Despite the economic importance of fish farming at the household and national level, farm households have paid little attention to the sector in the study area. Consequently, this study was undertaken to examine the determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production. For this purpose, a cross-sectional survey with 120 households was conducted to collect quantitative primary data. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and binary logit model were used to analyze the data. The result indicated that farm households’ participation in fish production is determined by various socioeconomic and institutional factors. Age of the household head, educational status, household size, extension service and access to modern transportation service had a statistically significant effect on farm households’ participation in fish production. An attempt to increase farm households’ participation in fish production should give special attention to the existing heterogeneity in socioeconomic and institutional factors.
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spelling doaj.art-46c09a1994f2428a83a0094eb22bf6e62022-12-21T22:55:15ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Food & Agriculture2331-19322020-01-016110.1080/23311932.2020.17281071728107Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest EthiopiaBirara Endalew0Melese Zeleke1Workneh Yenewa2Zemen Ayalew3Bahir Dar UniversityDebre Markos UniversityEthiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchBahir Dar UniversityIn Ethiopia, the fishery sector plays an important role to improve food security, employment creation, income generation and poverty reduction. Despite the economic importance of fish farming at the household and national level, farm households have paid little attention to the sector in the study area. Consequently, this study was undertaken to examine the determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production. For this purpose, a cross-sectional survey with 120 households was conducted to collect quantitative primary data. Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and binary logit model were used to analyze the data. The result indicated that farm households’ participation in fish production is determined by various socioeconomic and institutional factors. Age of the household head, educational status, household size, extension service and access to modern transportation service had a statistically significant effect on farm households’ participation in fish production. An attempt to increase farm households’ participation in fish production should give special attention to the existing heterogeneity in socioeconomic and institutional factors.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2020.1728107asendabobinary logit modelgilgel gibeomo nadaoromia
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Cogent Food & Agriculture
asendabo
binary logit model
gilgel gibe
omo nada
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title Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia
title_full Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia
title_fullStr Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia
title_full_unstemmed Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia
title_short Determinants of farm households’ participation in fish production in Southwest Ethiopia
title_sort determinants of farm households participation in fish production in southwest ethiopia
topic asendabo
binary logit model
gilgel gibe
omo nada
oromia
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23311932.2020.1728107
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