Impacts of agricultural machine renting on cereal crop productivity and commercialization in West Gojjam Zone, Ethiopia.

ABSTRACT: Agricultural mechanization plays an essential role to increase production, productivity and commercialization of cereal crops. Despite the Ethiopian's government has made substantial efforts to increase production, productivity and commercialization of cereal crops by the introduction of selective and adaptable agricultural machines to smallholder farmers has remained low. This study, therefore, investigated the impacts of agricultural machine renting on cereal crop productivity and commercialization. The study used cross-sectional data collected from 192 agricultural machine users and 208 non-users from West Gojjam zone, Ethiopia. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and econometric models. The econometric model includes Trans log production function, Endogenous switch regr

SUBMITTER: Tilahun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12558508 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature