Does Quality Difference In Chickpea Impact On The Value Chain And Food Security Status Of Households Evidence From Becho District Oromia Regional State Ethiopia
Quality of production has its own impact on Chickpea value chain which ultimately affects thernfood insecurity status of producers. Such effect has its own impact on the production decision ofrnproducers. This study examined the marketing value chain of different quality chickpeas, thernproduction decision and the food insecurity status of producers. The analysis was based on 286rnrandomly selected households from Becho District in South West Showa Zone of OromiarnRegional State of Ethiopia. In addition, 1 rural assemble, 26 wholesalers and 6 local collectorsrnin Tulu Bolo, Qobo, and Awash Bune, and two farmers unions in Tulu Bolo and Asgori, arnwholesaler and ECX were interviewed to identify chickpeas value chain actors, their respectivernroles in the pricing of a chickpea, marketing channels, and marketing structure and to draw uprnvalue chain map of the study area. The propensity Score Matching (PSM) along with probit wasrnapplied for examining the impact of quality chickpea production on the income obtained fromrnchickpea production. The result shows that quality chickpea production had increased thernaverage household income by about 6,979 birr per year using Kernel Matching with 2.36 %rnsignificance level. Household food insecurity access scale and food consumption score analysisrnusing the ordered logit regression and logit regressions were applied to determine the foodrninsecurity status among the households in the study area. The logit regression of foodrnconsumption score with a good-of-fit Pseudo R2rnof 22.98% of result shows that the major qualityrnchickpea producers (i.e. 57.58%) were found to be food secure while 70.78% of the poor-qualityrnchickpea producers were more food secure at 1% significant level. The logit regression of foodrnconsumption score also indicated that the result of food insecurity of household foodrnconsumption decreased after matching. The ordered logit regression model with Prob > chi2rnatrn1% significant level results showed that majority (62.12%) of quality chickpea producers werernfood secured. Thus, the research implicates that quality chickpea production should be promotedrnin the area to combat food insecurity and to increase the income of households. The value chainrnanalysis indicated that quality chickpea commodity has a critical role in attracting markets andrnin boosting the household income of the farming households.