Non-Farm Employment And Farm Production Off-Smallholder Farmers: - The Case Of Ambo Woreda, Oromia Regiona State, Ethiopia

Abstract

The study was conducted to examine Non-Farm Employment and farm production on smallholder farmers: - The Case of Ambo district, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. To identify the problem, primary sources and primary methods of data collection through survey questionnaire was carried out on 144 sampled households. Both descriptive and econometrics analysis were employed to meet the objective of the study. The results from the descriptive analysis indicated age of the household head, educational level of the household head, access to training, extension contact, land tenure, total land owned and means of land cultivation have major challenges on the participation of off- farm activities in the study area. After endogeneity problems among different factors are detected, logistic regression model was run to identify decision (determinants) of off-farm activities. The results revealed that education of the household head; total farm size and total land holding were strongly and positively related to the participation on off-farm activities; while age of the household head and sex of the household head had a negative influence on the participation of off farm activities. Accordingly, the study recommends that expansion and intensification combination of interventions aim at enhancing and promoting education through provision of awareness formation should be emphasized in rural areas of the district