Record Details

Estimating the potential to close yield gaps through increased efficiency of chickpea production in Ethiopia

CGSpace

View Archive Info
 
 
Field Value
 
Title Estimating the potential to close yield gaps through increased efficiency of chickpea production in Ethiopia
 
Creator Kumar, Shalander
Das, Abhishek
Hauser, Michael
Muricho, Geoffrey
Degefu, Tulu
Fikre, Asnake
Ojiewo, Christopher O.
Ferede, Setotaw
Varshney, Rajeev K.
 
Subject chickpeas
production
technology
yield gap
development
food science
 
Description Improved cultivars and agronomic practices have significantly increased chickpea production in Ethiopia in recent decades. Enhanced availability of chickpeas in Ethiopia, therefore, contributes to food, nutrition, and income security of the country. However, we know relatively little about the extent to which farmers have harnessed the full potential of these improved technologies. In this paper, we compare the technical efficiencies and technological gap ratios of chickpea farming in three major chickpea-producing areas of Ethiopia using a two-step meta frontier model. Based on regionally representative data from 681 chickpea-growing farm households in the three regions, we show regional differences in the technical efficiencies, technological gap ratios, and meta technical efficiencies (MTEs). We examined the drivers of these different production levels and identified ways to increase chickpea production while minimizing yield gaps. Improving technical efficiency through improving farmers’ access to improved seed, offering farmers need-based and gender-responsive extension support, encouraging their participation in technology development programs, and appropriate rainwater management would all contribute to harnessing the full potential of improved chickpea cultivars in Ethiopia.
 
Date 2022-10
2023-02-20T11:52:09Z
2023-02-20T11:52:09Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Kumar, S., Das, A., Hauser, M., Muricho, G., Degefu, T., Fikre, A., Ojiewo, C., Ferede, S. and Varshney, R.K. 2022. Estimating the potential to close yield gaps through increased efficiency of chickpea production in Ethiopia. Food Security 14(5):1241–1258.
1876-4525
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/128766
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-022-01285-w
 
Language en
 
Rights Copyrighted; all rights reserved
Limited Access
 
Publisher Springer Science and Business Media LLC
 
Source Food Security