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Crop yield can be increased by expanding crop area, raising yield per unit area or by growing more crops per year. However, in our context, where financial resources of small-holder farmers are limited and farm technologies are scarce and relatively expensive, improving level of technical efficiency of individual farmers is the cheapest method. In the study the estimated mean level of technical efficiency of sorghum producers was about 79%. This reveals that in the short run there exists a possibility to increase the level of sorghum output by about 21% using the existing local practices and...

The economic policy of Ethiopia aims at ensuring rapid and sustainable development through an agriculture-centered development strategy. This strategy is known as Agriculture Development Led Industrialisation strategy (ADLI), and concentrates mainly on the linkages between agriculture and other sectors of the economy. Agricultural growth is seen as a guarantee against food insecurity in the country. The food security strategy5 of Ethiopia is based on three important aspects: a)increasing food and agricultural production, b) improving food entitlement and c) strengthening capacity to manage...