Determinants of Cash Crop Productivity in Ethiopia: A Case of Small Scale Coffee producers in Mana Woreda, Jimma Zone

Abstract

In Ethiopia there have been numbers of farming strategies reform by government to improve productivity of small scale cash crop productions to increase GDP. However implementation of it does not give Eigen effects on rural production. For causes agricultural coffee productivity in Mana district, Jimma zone were inadequate and farm characterized by poor productivity. This study aimed to examine determinants of productivity in Ethiopia, a case of small scale coffee producers in Mana woreda. This study used primary and secondary sources of data to address research hypothesis and the sampling techniques that study used was multistage sampling which researcher applies sample determination general formula of Yemanes (1967). The study employed probit model to identify determinants of coffee farmers’ productivity in area and used cob Douglas production function to analysis level of productivity. The finding of thise study show, kola areas were suitable to coffee productivity than dega and woinadega areas with the same identified factors having large numbers of effectively determinant factors to productivity where in dega the least. So for dega and woinedega areas to incidence of factors to low productivity resulted call for urgent intervention to curbs this problem. In line with gender, age, education level, family size, land size, market distance, farm technology input, credit access and climate change, was identified as significant determinants of coffee productivity in Mana farm area. Explanatory variables related to effecient and ineffecient productivity have been identified and tested by diagnostic tests. In general, this study provide evidence that certain demographic and socioeconomic variables play key role in determining productivity in all rural areas of Mana woreda. Thus coffee productivity policies based on those factors should ingredients to increase productivity and targeted groups should involve in efforts that could address identified problem