The Effect of Farmers Education on Farm Productivity. Evidence from Small-Scale Maize Producing Farmers in North Bench District, Bench Maji Zone
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The Effect of Farmers Education on Farm Productivity. Evidence from Small-Scale Maize Producing Farmers in North Bench District, Bench Maji Zone
About this book
Master's Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, language: English, abstract: The objective of this study is to examine the effect of farmer education on farm productivity of small-scale maize producing farmers. The educational system in Ethiopia is differentiating by low participation rates, particularly in rural areas. The agriculture productivity and income of rural famer is increased by farmer education (both formal and informal education). In order to achieve the objective of the study cross-sectional data has been collected from 200 maize producing farmers on the production level, farm size, farm input and equipment used, educational level, farm experience, gender, age, secondary occupation, etc. Semi-Structured questionnaire has been administered, and interview was conducted for selected farmers in order to collect the relevant data. Both descriptive statistics and econometrics model were used to analysis the data collected from household head. Cobb-Douglas production function model has been used to analysis the effect of farm education on farm productivity by including the education level as input of production.
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