Assessment of Agricultural Growth Program: the case of farming households in Gedeo Zone, Gedeb wereda, SNNPR
| dc.contributor.advisor | Berhanu, Abeje (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gezahegn, Melkamu | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-14T12:39:22Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T12:16:30Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-14T12:39:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T12:16:30Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The Agricultural Growth Program (AGP) is one of the development programs which are funded by the World Bank with the aim of improving production and productivity of small holder farming households with special emphasis for women and youth. It is, therefore, timely to investigate the services provided by the AGP in Gedeb wereda, Gedeo zone,SNNPR. The aim of the study was to explore the types of services provided by AGP, to investigate the variations among farming households in accessing the services provided by the program and to investigate the challenges faced by the farmers in their efforts to make use of the services provided by the program.The study employed a mixed method.Survey was used to gather data from 149 randomly selected heads of farming households in the study area. In addition, in-depth interviews were conducted with 6purposively selected farming households and key informant interviews were conducted with purposively selected kebele agricultural extension workers and AGP focal person in the study area. The study shows that there are variations in the level of access to AGP services by farmers in accordance with their socio-demographic and economic characteristics. As a result, the younger the age of respondents, the more they access the services from the program and vice versa. In addition, level of education had statistically significant effect on the tendency of farmers to access the services from the program; the higher the educational level of respondents, the more they access the services from the program. Farm land size also found to be significantly correlated with access to AGP services; the larger the farmland size, the more farming households access the services from the program.In addition to the above mentioned socio-demographic factors attitude of farmers found to be significantly correlated with the level of access to the services;the higher the level of access to the services provided by the program, the higher attitudinal score by the farmer. Different from the other variables, gender difference among farming households was found to be insignificant to the level of access to AGP services. The majority of respondents also raised different factors as a challenge that constrained them not to properly access the services from the program | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/961 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Sociology | en_US |
| dc.title | Assessment of Agricultural Growth Program: the case of farming households in Gedeo Zone, Gedeb wereda, SNNPR | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |