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标题：Measuring Smallholder Commercialization Decisions and Interactions in Ethiopia
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作者：Degye Goshu ; Belay Kassa ; Mengistu Ketema 等
期刊名称：Journal of Economics and Sustainable Development
印刷版ISSN：2222-2855
电子版ISSN：2222-2855
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：13
页码：150-160
语种：English
出版社：The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)
摘要：This paper measures the market orientation in land allocation, crop choices and commercialization of smallholders in rural Ethiopia and estimates their intensity and interaction at agricultural enterprise levels. It employs different relevant econometric estimation techniques including seemingly unrelated regression (SUR), Tobit model, univariate and seemingly unrelated bivariate probit models. The results indicated that households’ land allocation and crop choices between staples and cash crops were strongly and negatively correlated, suggesting that production of staples and cash crops were competing for limited resources but their crop choices were determined by similar underlying covariates. Moreover, crop and livestock commercialization scales were strongly and positively correlated, implying that the scale of commercialization in one enterprise enhanced commercialization in the other and households’ scale of commercialization in the two enterprises was determined by common underlying factors. However, their crop and livestock commercialization status were independent and their determinants were basically different.