Profitability and Value Chain Assessment of Groundnut in Digga District of East Wollega Zone, Oromia National Regional State, Ethiopia
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 4, August 2019
Pages:
81-88
Received:
16 July 2018
Accepted:
15 August 2019
Published:
30 August 2019
Abstract: Marketing inefficiencies and low coordination of groundnut value chain are the main problems though Digga district is potential in groundnut production. The study was conducted to analyze the profitability and value chain assessment of groundnut in Digga district of Oromia region, Ethiopia. More specifically, the study identified value chain actors, their respective roles, maps the value chain, and assesses the performance of groundnut production in the area. Primary data were collected through a survey using pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire and through key informant interview using checklists and generated from randomly sampled 123 groundnut producers, 28 traders and 25 consumers. The major actors of groundnut value chain were: input suppliers, producers, traders, processors and consumers. Two-stage sampling procedure was employed to draw sample of groundnut producers. Digga districtwas selected purposively based on the potential it has for groundnut production in the zone. In the first stage, from kebeles which produce groundnut, 4 kebeles were randomly selected. In the second stage, 123 samples of household heads were randomly selected from total groundnut producers in the district and the sample households were drawn randomly from each kebele based on probability proportional to size sampling techniques. Producers’ highest gross marketing margin was 86.12% in channel III and highest total gross margin is 19.93% in channel IV while 13.88% is the lowest total gross margin in channel III. Cost incurred in groundnut production was 6588 Birr per Hectare and the gross income obtained from groundnut production was 9,600 Birr per Hectare and net income of the product was 3012 Birr per Hectare which shows groundnut production in Digga district is profitable. Opportunities and constraints of groundnut profitability and value chain were identified at each stage of value chain like input supply, production, processing, marketing and consumption of groundnut. The study recommended that farm machineries, improved seed of groundnut, market facilities and market outlets should be provided for farmers for insuring larger production and selling thereby to enhance profit of groundnut production in the study area.
Abstract: Marketing inefficiencies and low coordination of groundnut value chain are the main problems though Digga district is potential in groundnut production. The study was conducted to analyze the profitability and value chain assessment of groundnut in Digga district of Oromia region, Ethiopia. More specifically, the study identified value chain actors...
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Status of Pest, Oryctes rhinoceros and Its Natural Enemies in the Independent Smallholder Treated with Different Insecticides
Fathul Nabila Abd Karim,
Mohd Rasdi Zaini,
Ismail Rakibe,
Shafiq Sani,
Nurul Farahana Hazira Hazlee,
Noor Shuhaina Shaikh Mazran
Issue:
Volume 8, Issue 4, August 2019
Pages:
89-94
Received:
28 July 2019
Accepted:
19 August 2019
Published:
17 September 2019
Abstract: A field study was carried out at Tangkak, Malaysia regarding Oryctes rhinoceros’s infestation and its natural enemies after being treated with selected pesticides from January until October 2017. The objective of this study to examine the effect of different insecticides usages with the presences of Oryctes rhinoceros including unteated area and population of Oryctes’s natural enemy in the oil palm areas of smallholders. Three treatments with four replicates were applied in the selected oil palm area, namely Cypermethrin, Carbofuran and Untreated (without chemical). Twelve smallholders with three different insecticides used were chosen randomly and twelve samples were taken as replicates. Effects of the beetles’ population over the chemical’s treatments were analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) (SPSS - version 23). The results dramatically revealed that the least presence of Oryctes rhinoceros was detected at Untreated area with total mean of 0.21, followed by Carbofuran with total mean of 2.63 and Cypermethrin with 3.12. The result of this study indicated that Oryctes rhinoceros in Tangkak, Johor has developed resistance to the insecticides used by the growers due to high frequency of similar type of chemical. These insecticides had no significant effect towards the natural enemy found in oil palm area in Tangkak which is Platymeris laevicollis. These natural enemies also showed no relationship directly with the presences of Oryctes rhinoceros due to low diversity of plant species or particularly lack of shelter.
Abstract: A field study was carried out at Tangkak, Malaysia regarding Oryctes rhinoceros’s infestation and its natural enemies after being treated with selected pesticides from January until October 2017. The objective of this study to examine the effect of different insecticides usages with the presences of Oryctes rhinoceros including unteated area and po...
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