Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation
Improved technologies are increasingly promoted to farmers in sub-Saharan-African countries to address low agricultural productivity in their staple crops. There is, however, a lack of evidence on how adoption affects farmers’ labor use and profitability at the farm level, as well as the importance...
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| author | Vandercasteelen, Joachim Dereje, Mekdim Minten, Bart Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum |
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| description | Improved technologies are increasingly promoted to farmers in sub-Saharan-African countries to address low agricultural productivity in their staple crops. There is, however, a lack of evidence on how adoption affects farmers’ labor use and profitability at the farm level, as well as the importance gender roles play, all essential drivers for the successful up-scaling of the use of the improved technologies. This paper analyses the labor and profitability impact of the recently introduced row planting technology in teff production in Ethiopia. Based on agronomic evidence in experimental settings, the Government of Ethiopia has focused extension efforts on promoting the widespread uptake of row planting to address low teff yields, replacing the traditional broadcasting method of plant teff. Using an innovative Randomized Controlled Trial set-up, we show that the implementation of row planting at the farm level significantly increases total labor use, but not teff yields, relative to broadcast planting, resulting in a substantial drop in labor productivity when adopting row planting. Moreover, the implementation of row planting has important consequences for inter- and intra-household labor allocation, with relatively more use of non-family labor. The adoption of row planting was further found not to be profitable for farmers in the first year of the promotion campaign, seemingly explaining the limited success in up-scaling the adoption of the technology by farmers in the second year of the program. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1482352025-11-06T05:45:53Z Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation Vandercasteelen, Joachim Dereje, Mekdim Minten, Bart Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum broadcast sowing gender teff labour smallholders productivity yields planting experimental design line planting Improved technologies are increasingly promoted to farmers in sub-Saharan-African countries to address low agricultural productivity in their staple crops. There is, however, a lack of evidence on how adoption affects farmers’ labor use and profitability at the farm level, as well as the importance gender roles play, all essential drivers for the successful up-scaling of the use of the improved technologies. This paper analyses the labor and profitability impact of the recently introduced row planting technology in teff production in Ethiopia. Based on agronomic evidence in experimental settings, the Government of Ethiopia has focused extension efforts on promoting the widespread uptake of row planting to address low teff yields, replacing the traditional broadcasting method of plant teff. Using an innovative Randomized Controlled Trial set-up, we show that the implementation of row planting at the farm level significantly increases total labor use, but not teff yields, relative to broadcast planting, resulting in a substantial drop in labor productivity when adopting row planting. Moreover, the implementation of row planting has important consequences for inter- and intra-household labor allocation, with relatively more use of non-family labor. The adoption of row planting was further found not to be profitable for farmers in the first year of the promotion campaign, seemingly explaining the limited success in up-scaling the adoption of the technology by farmers in the second year of the program. 2016-07-01 2024-06-21T09:24:07Z 2024-06-21T09:24:07Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148235 en https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148347 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Ethiopian Development Research Institute Vandercasteelen, Joachim; Dereje, Mekdim; Minten, Bart; and Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum. 2016. Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation. ESSP II Working Paper 92. Washington, DC and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148235 |
| spellingShingle | broadcast sowing gender teff labour smallholders productivity yields planting experimental design line planting Vandercasteelen, Joachim Dereje, Mekdim Minten, Bart Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation |
| title | Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation |
| title_full | Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation |
| title_fullStr | Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation |
| title_short | Row planting teff in Ethiopia: Impact on farm-level profitability and labor allocation |
| title_sort | row planting teff in ethiopia impact on farm level profitability and labor allocation |
| topic | broadcast sowing gender teff labour smallholders productivity yields planting experimental design line planting |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/148235 |
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