Impact of cooperatives based local seed business in enhancing small scale farmers‟ livelihood the case of chercher oda bultum farmers cooperatives union

Abstract

This study evaluated the impact of Cooperatives based local Seed business to enhance Farmers’ livelihood ’the case of Chercher Oda Bultum Farmers’ cooperatives union.. This study provides empirical evidence of impact of haricot bean seed production cooperatives in the area. The study employed explanatory and descriptive research design used as an attempt to connect ideas and understand cause and effect on dependent and independent variables from both primary and secondary data by using binary logistic regression model. Based on Taro Yemane (1973) research sample size calculation population were considered in which 154 from cooperative members were proportional stratified both Descriptive statistics and Binary Logistic regression model were applied for data analysis. The result was showed that haricot bean seed producing cooperatives member household have a better access to cultivated land, access to seed, access to fertilizer, access to credit, access to insurance and access to information than non -accessed in the study area. In the second Stage binary logistic regression result indicates at households (Cox &Snell R 2 = 0.609, suggests that 60.9% of the variation in the dependent variable was explained by the logistic regression model. Chi-square =144.745, P<000, with df 7, Naglkerke R 2 value was 0.844 which means the independent variables entered in the model explained 84.4% of variance dependent variable, or indicated a highly relationship between prediction and predictors. The Wald statistics value of access to Credit that is 10.442 was the highest statically significance at the 0.1% (P=0.001) The implication of this finding the farmers who have access credit more likely improve farmers’ livelihood compared to those which no access to credit. Access to information was the second predictors of the independent variables which a Wald statistics 7.669, (B) value 64.081, (P=0.006).This shows that access to information is the second most important factors influencing positively to farmers’ livelihood. From the study the researcher concluded that 62% the impact assessment of this study was positive and statistically significant impact of haricot bean seed production cooperatives on farmers’ livelihood. Therefore, the government and other non -government like ISSD, Chercher Oda Bultum Farmers’ cooperative unions should provide more support to expand haricot bean producing Cooperatives in order to increase production and farmers’ livelihood.