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Item ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL INPUT CREDIT ON PRODUCTIVITY OF MAIZE: THE CASE OF KUYU WOREDA(wolkite universty, 2019-10) ASTER SOLOMONAgriculture is the largest sector in the Ethiopian economy approximately employing 85% of the country’s population. Government of Ethiopia is currently paying attention in helping farmers. It provides different incentives like credit and training. Credit plays crucial role in increasing maize production. Despite its importance, farmers face many challenges in utilization of credit for maize production. As the study was intended to find out factors affecting maize production and role of credit in maize production, in North shewa, Kuyu district, different factors found significant. The study has used simple random sampling in identifying sample respondents. Linear multiple regression analysis was used in the study. Ten variables were included in to the regression analysis of the study; four variables become significant. Family size, Land size, fertilizer and Sex of house hold become significant. This indicates agriculture is becoming the main sector in absorbing large number of labor. Now days, no one can expand land size, but there is duty of all bodies to take care of land uses. As credit is playing great role in maize production, it has to be given attention in expanding credit services for the community. There are so many factors hindering farmers from credit utilization, government should create environment that enables farmers to utilize credit according to the intention. Therefore the government better to do expand the farmer training center and which provide know how to the farmers about the role of inputs and how to use them in a best way.Item DETERMINANTS OF FERTILIZER USE OF CROP PRODUCTION ON SMALL HOUSEHOOLD FARMER (IN CASE OF HIDEBU ABOOTE WOREDA)(wolkite universty, 2019-09) AYELE YAZEWThe aim of this study is to examine the determinant of fertilizer use on crop production by small holder farmers in case of hidabu abote woreda. Data for this study collected from primary data in 2010 cropping season. A simple random sampling is applied to select 88 samples which include both adopter and non-adopter in the selected kebeles. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to describe socio economic and institutional characteristics of the respondent through percentage in both fertilizers adopted and non- fertilizer adopted farmers. OLS model was employed to identify determinant of fertilizer application on crop production was regressed against eight explanatory variables so as to identify the determinant fertilizers application on crop production by small holder farmers. Regression result revealed that six explanatory variable such as credit access and safety net positively influenced and statistically insignificant variables. Whereas six variables I.e. family size, education level, farm size, number of oxen , number of livestock and extension service are statistically significant at 1, 5and 10percent. Therefore the study suggest that improve credit access and safety net program, giving attence are some of the important priority area for the success of future intervention strategies aimed at the promotion of increasing production for sustainable development in agricultural seItem ROLE OF AGRICULTURAL INPUT CREDIT ON PRODUCTIVITY OF MAIZE: THE CASE OF KUYU WOREDA(wolkite universty, 2019-09) ASTER SOLOMONAgriculture is the largest sector in the Ethiopian economy approximately employing 85% of the country’s population. Government of Ethiopia is currently paying attention in helping farmers. It provides different incentives like credit and training. Credit plays crucial role in increasing maize production. Despite its importance, farmers face many challenges in utilization of credit for maize production. As the study was intended to find out factors affecting maize production and role of credit in maize production, in North shewa, Kuyu district, different factors found significant. The study has used simple random sampling in identifying sample respondents. Linear multiple regression analysis was used in the study. Ten variables were included in to the regression analysis of the study; four variables become significant. Family size, Land size, fertilizer and Sex of house hold become significant. This indicates agriculture is becoming the main sector in absorbing large number of labor. Now days, no one can expand land size, but there is duty of all bodies to take care of land uses. As credit is playing great role in maize production, it has to be given attention in expanding credit services for the community. There are so many factors hindering farmers from credit utilization, government should create environment that enables farmers to utilize credit according to the intention. Therefore the government better to do expand the farmer training center and which provide know how to the farmers about the role of inputs and how to use them in a best way.Item THE CONTRIBUTION OF MANUFACTURE SECTOR IN ETHIOPIAN EXPORT PERFORMANCE(WOLKITE UNIVERSITY, 2019-06) ABDU MUSTEFAThe world will not exist had it not been through the exchange of goods and services and it has played a huge part to the existence of humankind. As society developed they started noticing that and started promoting it through trade agreements between countries. After 2000 Ethiopia has been a beneficiary of a special trade agreement with the other country. This paper made an attempt to measure the importance of the trade agreement to the textile sector and how well the country utilized it by the use of both descriptive and econometric methods. The study found that real growth domestic product, Labor force, Real exchange rate (RER), and Manufacture (MN)are significantly contributed for export performance in Ethiopia. Therefore, we can say that Ethiopia should continue promoting the sector.