@article{Muricho:212515,
      recid = {212515},
      author = {Muricho, Geoffrey and Kassie, Menale and Obare, Gideon},
      title = {Determinants of Market Participation Regimes among  Smallholder Maize Producers in Kenya},
      address = {2015},
      number = {1008-2016-80186},
      pages = {21},
      year = {2015},
      abstract = {More studies have been conducted on determinants of  smallholder participation in markets as sellers, with scant  attention to why farmers participate in markets as either  net sellers, autarkic or net buyers. Employing a random  effect ordered probit model, this paper examines factors  determining households’ participation in maize markets as  either net sellers, autarkic or net buyers. Contrary to  government intentions for producer price supports, this  study showed that households that faced high producer  selling prices of maize were likely to be net buyers.  However, household membership to agricultural production  groups increased the likelihood of farmers being net  sellers. Similarly, adoption of inorganic fertilizer and  improved maize varieties were positively associated with  being net sellers. Therefore, policies supporting high  producer selling prices should be discouraged and instead  encourage those that ease smallholder access to fertilizer  and improved maize seed.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/212515},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.212515},
}