@article{Hagos:246403,
      recid = {246403},
      author = {Hagos, Fitsum and Makombe, Godswill and Namara, Regassa  and Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele},
      title = {Does access to small scale irrigation promote market  oriented production in Ethiopia?},
      address = {2008},
      number = {614-2016-40817},
      pages = {pp.262-281},
      year = {2008},
      note = {In Awulachew, Seleshi Bekele; Loulseged, Makonnen; Yilma,  Aster Denekew (Comps.). Impact of irrigation on poverty and  environment in Ethiopia: draft proceedings of the symposium  and exhibition, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 27-29 November 2007.   Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management  Institute (IWMI).},
      abstract = {The study examined the extent and nature of market  oriented production in irrigated compared to rainfed  systems in Ethiopia. By doing so the paper identifies the  role of irrigation in market-oriented production, while at  the same time highlighting the main constraints to market  oriented development. Our results indicate that irrigation  contributes significantly to increases in market  participation, volume of marketed produce and, hence,  income, by inducing shifts in farmers’ cropping mix. The  impact of commercialization of production on household food  security is not direct and immediate mainly because of  failures in the food market. While irrigation enhances  market production, there are series of factors that pose  serious constraints to market production. Land size, oxen  holding, access to market and means of transport were found  to be important determinants of market oriented production  calling for policy interventions in land markets, access to  productive assets and infrastructure development and policy  measures to improve the performance of agricultural  markets. The study also found education has market  promoting effect in terms of increasing the probability of  participation and volume of sale. Increased support to  education can, thus, help in the long-term to transform  traditional subsistence agriculture into more  market-oriented agriculture. Finally there are unobserved  site specific effects, related to location and other  covariates, which influence market participation and volume  decisions.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/246403},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.246403},
}