Commercial behaviours of smallholder farmers in wheat seed use and its implication for demand assessment in Ethiopia

Dawit Alemu and Zewdie Bishaw

Development in Practice, 2015, vol. 25, issue 6, 798-814

Abstract: The article presents the commercial behaviour and its determinants of smallholder farmers in wheat seed use, and its implication for seed demand assessment, based on primary data from 524 wheat farmers in the major wheat growing areas covering 22 woredas in 11 zones in the Amhara, Oromiya, SNNP, and Tigray regions of Ethiopia. Although 69% of farmers use improved varieties, the overwhelming majority use seed from informal sources: own saved seed (52%) or purchased seed from local sources (32%). The article documents the distribution of wheat growers into different wheat seed market positions (autarkic, buying, or selling), and identifies the key determinants of these market behaviours. The results can serve as a guide in assessing the wheat seed demand from the formal sector at a national level.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/09614524.2015.1062469

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