Enset value chain analyis: the case of angecha woreda in kembata tembaro zone, south Ethiopia

Abstract

Enset is one of the major food crops supporting many people in Southern Nations, Nationalities and People’s Regional State. The crop requires intensive management and high amount of nutrients; however, only limited work has been done to upgrade the crop even the demand increases from time to time. Absences of many institutional, organizational and technological improvements were attributed to existing inefficiencies in enset production and utilization. This study was undertaken in Angecha Woreda in Kembata Tembaro Zone, south Ethiopia has been designed to throw light on the analyze existing value chain, develop chain map and identify the actors, identify challenge and opportunity of enset product and identify factors affect farmer participation on value addition focused on this study. SPSS-16 was used for descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and STATA 12.1 was used to analyze multiple out come and marginal effect model. The result from descriptive study shows that long market chain and diseases bacteria wilt highly affect enset crop. The result from multinomial logit model, number of years’ experience, education level, land size coverage by enset crop, distance to main market, number of cattle and extension service are significantly influencing farmers’ on bulla product value addition positively. Land size of enset, crop variety, distance to village market and number of cattle significantly influence farmers on fiber value addition negatively. The study therefore recommends policy interventions whereby to solve the problem of bacteria wilt disease; policy makers, research and extension groups, NGOs and other actors must find solutions and give continuous training should be arranged and delivered on enset production, management, pre and post- harvest handling techniques to farmers and service providers to create sustainability of crop. This important to develop agricultural product general. Farmers are small-scale and unorganized in the study area; this state of affairs clearly needs strong government intervention. Effort should also be made to strengthen farmers’ cooperative and encourage collective action of farmers to improve variety and share information about market