Solomon Erifo

Bamboo plays very important role socially, economically and ecologically. Despite the fact that bamboo play important role in improving the livelihood of the local community it has an insignificant contribution due to the products are at a very rudimentary level and inexistence of well established bamboo industry. These situations hampered the opportunity of the potential of bamboo that will improve the poor living standards and hence sustainable utilization of the resources. This study was initiated to analyze the existing bamboo market chain in Bule Woreda Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and Regional State. The focus of the study was to analyze the determinants of marketable supply of Bamboo, identify actors involved in the processes and what do they actually do, investigate the costs incurred by each participants and the benefits driven by each. The data were collected by using a semi-structured questionnaires together with secondary data gathered from agricultural bur...

The study was conducted to identify the factors affecting sugarcane productivity in Wondo Genet, Ethiopia. Data's were collected from 80 sugarcane growers from Wosha Soyama and Wotera Kechema Kebele administration. Data were collected during the period 2015/16 G.C harvesting. The input output relationship were analyzed by Cobb-Douglas production function. The result of Cobb-Douglas production function  reveals that  land holding size, costs of  inputs for land preparation, DAP and urea were highly significant at 1% level with positive coefficients 0.33, 1.86, 0.65 and 0.18, respectively. Education level and the cost of FYM was significant at 5% level with coefficients of 0.24 and -0.04.  The coefficient of adjusted multiple determinations R 2 was 0.8624, which indicated that it is well fitted and  86% variation in the variables was explained by all the hypothesized explanatory variables. On the basis of the research findings  some recommendations were given so as enhance sugarca...