ENIOR RESEARCH PAPER ON DETERMINANTS OF MARKETABLE SURPLUS OF CHICKPEA IN CASE OF WOLISO DISTRICT ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Chickpea is an important pulse crop grown on black soil. Area under Chickpea has been expanding due to its diversified usage. The objective of this research paper is to identify the determinants of marketable surplus of chickpea in case of woliso district, and identifying chickpea’s marketing status in woliso district is the specific objective of this study. To examine these determinants, Potential producer kebeles are selected purposively. Respondents from each kebeles are selected based on probabilistic simple random sampling techniques and accordingly sample of 70 respondents were taken. To collect relevant data, structured interviews were applied. To analyze the data both descriptive statistics and econometrics models (for analyzing determinants of marketable surplus) were employed. Determinants of marketable surplus were analyzed by using multiple linear regression model. accordingly age, land size, household size, market information and credit access were significant factors that affect marketable surplus of chickpea in the study area. vif shows that there was no problem of multicollinearity. Descriptive statistics was applied to describe dummy variables and characteristics of respondents