Gender Disaggregated Chickpea Yield Gap Analysis: The Case of Ada’a Woreda, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia
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2021-01
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Addis Ababa University
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The yield gap between FHHs and MHHs remain the major barrier for the efforts to reduce poverty in Africa. So as Ethiopia is from the country trapped by poverty, studying the magnitude of yield gap between FHHs and MHHs is important to provide solutions. Thus this research aimed to examine gender disaggregated Chickpea yield gap analysis in Ada Woreda, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. The potential chickpea producing kebeles selected are; Akaako, Denkaka, and Tullu-Dimtu from Ada’a Woreda. This study attempted to: assess whether there is chickpea yield gap between the potential and average farmers yield, assess whether there is chickpea yield gap between FHH and MHH farmers, and describe the underlying factors for the chickpea yield increment of both FHH and MHH farmers. The research used mixed research method which based on explanatory sequential design for supporting the quantitative data collected through survey method by qualitative data collected through FGD and KII. Multistage sampling method is used to select chickpea potential kebeles in Ada’a woreda and three kebeles were selected purposively from those potential kebeles. Finally, research participants were selected using simple random sampling. For the quantitative research 325 participants were involved and for the quantitative research 28 participants (24 for FGD and 4 KII) were involved. The major findings of this study are: the average farmers’ yield (157.185 kg ha-1) is statistically significantly lower by 157.185 kg ha-1 than potential yield (1700 kg ha-1) of chickpea in the study area. So depending on the traditional means of farming is the main factor that the identified. Additionally, average chickpea productivity of FHHs (1286.47 kg ha-1), is statistically significantly lower by 511.120 kg ha-1 (28.5%) than the average productivity of MHHs (1797.59 kg ha-1) in the study area. Thus, both Gender based constraints and technical abilities are factors identified for lower productivity of FHHs in the study area. Thus, the research recommends to bride the yield gap identified equal and equitable use of agricultural development activities without any discrimination for being FHHs and MHHs.
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Gender disaggregated, Chickpea, yield gap, and Female and male headed households