The Contribution of Smallholder Cash Cropping to Household Food Security: The Case of onion Producers in Alamata Woreda, Tigray, Ethiopia
| dc.contributor.advisor | Negatu, Workneh (PhD) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Tsegaye, Abadi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-26T12:13:39Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-18T09:27:38Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-07-26T12:13:39Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-11-18T09:27:38Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2007-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A growing body of empirical evidence shows that smallholder cash cropping has contribution to ensuring household food security through improving farm households' income and enhancing food crop productivity. Further more, it has been argued that cash crop and food crop production can compliment each other in improving farmers' income and achieving household food security. Besides, cash cropping also has a positive effect on food crop productivity by supplying with more draft animals, agricultural inputs and hired labor. Similarly, income from cash cropping relieves the meager income of poor farm households from being depleted by other non food expenditures of households. Nevertheless, smallholder cash cropping can be constrained with inadequate extension service, inefficient market system, and insufficient and untimely supply of modern inputs. This study was conducted to "assess the contribution of onion production to household food security in Alamata woreda: To this end, an empirical analysis was done using descriptive analysis in comparative fashion between onion producing and non producing households using data collected by household survey and other qualitative methods of data collection. Statistical tools such as T-test and Chi-Square have been employed to test the variation in some important variables. The study found out that onion production has a significant contribution to household food security via improving the income of producing household anrl improving the productivity of food crop productivity. The majority of producing households have been found to be more food secure than their non producing counterparts. In addition, many onions producing farmer shave bought oxen with money obtained from onion sale. Similarly, it was observed that income from onion was used to cover other non food expenditures such as education, health, clothing and ceremonial expenses. In general, it was observed that the total mean income of producers was almost twofold of that of non producers, the major factor for this variation being income from onion sale. Finally, the researcher recommends that in promoting market oriented smallholder cash cropping, problems related to extension service, market development, and provision of modern agricultural inputs should be addressed. In addition, area specific potentials should be exploited for efficient cash cropping and thereby ensure food security of farm households. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/12345678/10125 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cropping to Household Food Security | en_US |
| dc.title | The Contribution of Smallholder Cash Cropping to Household Food Security: The Case of onion Producers in Alamata Woreda, Tigray, Ethiopia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |