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Responses of Rice Farmers Engaged in Vegetable Production: Implications of the Collapse of Vegetable Prices in the Fogera Plain

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dc.creator Alemu, Dawit
dc.creator Kinfe, Tirhas
dc.date 2021-07-27T12:50:47Z
dc.date 2021-07-27T12:50:47Z
dc.date 2021-07-01
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:48:00Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:48:00Z
dc.identifier Alemu, D. and Kinfe, T. (2021) Responses of Rice Farmers Engaged in Vegetable Production: Implications of the Collapse of Vegetable Prices in the Fogera Plain, APRA Research Note 4, Brighton: Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.identifier 978-1-78118-834-7
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16758
dc.identifier Rural Futures
dc.identifier 10.19088/APRA.2021.017
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198593
dc.description Since the early 1980s, the Fogera Plain has been one of Ethiopia's major rice production areas. The introduction of rice, its commercialisation and the subsequent increased surplus production has led to the ability of smallholder rice farmers to intensify their production through diverse investments, mainly in supplementary irrigation. This has also enabled rice farmers to diversify crop production, mainly during the off-season, through the production of high-value crops like vegetables. Despite this expansion, a recent visit to the Fogera Plain by the authors revealed that most smallholder rice farmers were not able to sell their onions due to the collapse of local markets. To investigate this collapse further, this paper follows the authors' investigation of farmer investments in producing onion, their responses to the collapse of the onion market, and the implications for rural livelihood improvement within the Fogera Plain.
dc.language en
dc.publisher APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.rights APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium
dc.subject Agriculture
dc.subject Economic Development
dc.subject Finance
dc.subject Poverty
dc.subject Rural Development
dc.subject Trade
dc.title Responses of Rice Farmers Engaged in Vegetable Production: Implications of the Collapse of Vegetable Prices in the Fogera Plain
dc.type Series paper (non-IDS)
dc.coverage Ethiopia


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