Does Quality Difference in Chickpea Impact on the Value Chain and Food Security Status of Households? Evidence from Becho District, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
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2019-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Quality of production has its own impact on Chickpea value chain which ultimately affects the
food insecurity status of producers. Such effect has its own impact on the production decision of
producers. This study examined the marketing value chain of different quality chickpeas, the
production decision and the food insecurity status of producers. The analysis was based on 286
randomly selected households from Becho District in South West Showa Zone of Oromia
Regional State of Ethiopia. In addition, 1 rural assemble, 26 wholesalers and 6 local collectors
in Tulu Bolo, Qobo, and Awash Bune, and two farmers unions in Tulu Bolo and Asgori, a
wholesaler and ECX were interviewed to identify chickpeas value chain actors, their respective
roles in the pricing of a chickpea, marketing channels, and marketing structure and to draw up
value chain map of the study area. The propensity Score Matching (PSM) along with probit was
applied for examining the impact of quality chickpea production on the income obtained from
chickpea production. The result shows that quality chickpea production had increased the
average household income by about 6,979 birr per year using Kernel Matching with 2.36 %
significance level. Household food insecurity access scale and food consumption score analysis
using the ordered logit regression and logit regressions were applied to determine the food
insecurity status among the households in the study area. The logit regression of food
consumption score with a good-of-fit Pseudo R2
of 22.98% of result shows that the major quality
chickpea producers (i.e. 57.58%) were found to be food secure while 70.78% of the poor-quality
chickpea producers were more food secure at 1% significant level. The logit regression of food
consumption score also indicated that the result of food insecurity of household food
consumption decreased after matching. The ordered logit regression model with Prob > chi2
at
1% significant level results showed that majority (62.12%) of quality chickpea producers were
food secured. Thus, the research implicates that quality chickpea production should be promoted
in the area to combat food insecurity and to increase the income of households. The value chain
analysis indicated that quality chickpea commodity has a critical role in attracting markets and
in boosting the household income of the farming households.
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Chickpeas, Value Chain, Market Analysis, Food Insecurity, Farming Households, Ethiopia