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Grain-supply response in Ethiopia: An error-correction approach

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  • Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta
  • Oosterhuizen, K.
  • van Schalkwyk, Herman D.

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This paper quantifies the responsiveness of producers of teff, wheat, maize and sorghum to incentives using an error-correction model (ECM). It is found that planned supply of these crops is positively affected by own price, negatively by prices of substitute crops and variously by structural breaks related to policy changes and the occurrence of natural calamities. It has found significant long-run price elasticities for all crop types and insignificant short-run price elasticities for all crops but maize. Higher and significant long-run price elasticities as compared to lower and insignificant short-run price elasticities are attributable to various factors, namely structural constraints, the theory of supply and the conviction that farmers respond when they are certain that price changes are permanent. The paper concludes that farmers do respond to incentive changes. Thus attempts, which directly or indirectly tax agriculture with the belief that the sector is non-responsive to incentives, harm its growth and its contribution to growth in other sectors of the economy.

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  • Alemu, Zerihun Gudeta & Oosterhuizen, K. & van Schalkwyk, Herman D., 2003. "Grain-supply response in Ethiopia: An error-correction approach," Agrekon, Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa (AEASA), vol. 42(4), pages 1-16, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:agreko:9497
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.9497
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    1. Kamel Louhichi & Umed Temursho & Liesbeth Colen & Sergio Gomez y Paloma, 2019. "Upscaling the productivity performance of the Agricultural Commercialization Cluster Initiative in Ethiopia [Élargissement des performance de productivité de l'Initiative des grappes de Commerciali," Working Papers hal-02790390, HAL.
    2. Yoon, Jongyeol & Brown, Scott, 2017. "Examination of asymmetric supply response in the U.S. livestock industry," 2017 Annual Meeting, February 4-7, 2017, Mobile, Alabama 252779, Southern Agricultural Economics Association.
    3. Johnson, Michael E. & Takeshima, Hiroyuki & Gyimah-Brempong, Kwabena, 2013. "Assessing the potential and policy alternatives for achieving rice competitiveness and growth in Nigeria:," IFPRI discussion papers 1301, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    4. Aymeric Ricome & Kamel Louhichi & Sergio Gomez y Paloma, 2020. "Impacts of agricultural produce cess (tax) reform options in Tanzania [Impacts des options de réforme des taxes sur les produits agricoles en Tanzanie]," Working Papers hal-02535711, HAL.
    5. Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane & Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, 2018. "Supply response of smallholder households in Ethiopia," IFPRI book chapters, in: The economics of teff: Exploring Ethiopia’s biggest cash crop, chapter 8, pages 181-204, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    6. Lekunze, Joseph Nembo & Luvhengo, Usapfa & Shoko, Rangarirai Roy, 2016. "Structural Analysis Of Minimum Wage Rates, Unemployment And Food Prices Of Farm Workers In South Africa: Co-Integration Approach," Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development, University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland, vol. 42(4).
    7. Mesay Yami & Ferdi Meyer & Rashid Hassan, 2020. "The impact of production shocks on maize markets in Ethiopia: implications for regional trade and food security," Agricultural and Food Economics, Springer;Italian Society of Agricultural Economics (SIDEA), vol. 8(1), pages 1-25, December.
    8. Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane & Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, 2015. "Dynamic supply response of farm households in Ethiopia:," ESSP working papers 78, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
    9. Shikur, Zewdie Habte, 2021. "Potato and Tomato Supply and Yield Responses to Policy in Ethiopia," African Journal of Economic Review, African Journal of Economic Review, vol. 9(4), September.

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