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Can improved food legume varieties increase technical efficiency in crop production?
Faba bean (broad bean), field pea, and lentil are very important legumes in the highlands of Ethiopia. Ethiopia is the largest producer of faba bean in SSA. In 2012/13, about 4.4 million small holder farmers planted 574,000 ...
Impact of improved legume varieties on technical efficiency of crop production in Ethiopia: Application of doubly-robust treatment effects model
This paper presents the impact of improved food legume varieties on technical efficiency and productivity of crop production in a farming system where mono-cropping of cereals is the norm. Data on 600 randomly selected ...
Economic impact of broomrape (Orobanche crenata) on pulse crop production in north Eastern Ethiopia. International conference on pulses, Marrakesh, Morocco, April 18-20, 2016. Abstract 166.
Broomrape (Orobanche crenata) is a parasitic weed that has become a nuisance to pulse crop production
in many parts of Ethiopia. Despite the challenges posed by the weed, there has not been any study on its
economic impact ...