Three hurdles towards commercialisation: integrating subsistence chickpea producers in the market economy

Martin Paul, Kai Mausch, Tesfaye B Woldeyohanes and Thomas Heckelei

European Review of Agricultural Economics, 2022, vol. 49, issue 3, 668-695

Abstract: Enhancing agricultural productivity through the adoption of improved technologies presents a credible pathway to economic development and poverty reduction especially through increased commercialisation of production. We used a triple hurdle (TH) model to estimate the production and commercialisation of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. In doing so, we account for the adoption of improved Cicer arietinum (chickpea) varieties on commercialisation using a three-wave panel data set. We estimate a correlated random effect model with a control function and find the adoption of improved chickpea to have a significant positive effect on smallholder commercialisation. Our findings that are robust over different specifications and identification strategies also support the role of transaction cost in driving market participation (MP). Finally, we argue that the TH model is a better fit to the commonly used double hurdle model for MP, when not all households in a population produce a particular crop.

Keywords: adoption; improved technologies; transaction costs; correlated random effects; panel data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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