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Original research FACTORS AFFECTING THE PARTICIPATION OF MICRO AND SMALL SCALE AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES: THE CASE OF RURAL AND PER-URBAN YOUTH IN SELECTED AREAS OF SNNPR, ETHIOPIAPages 149-154
Abstract
Agricultural micro and small enterprises remain fundamental to poverty reduction in this century by employing a large population worldwide. Thus, this study aimed to identify factors affecting youth participation in micro and small agricultural enterprises, its effect on the livelihood of youth‘s and to differentiate potential constraints and opportunities in the involvement of agricultural enterprises in the study area. The study emloyed both the Primary and secondary data sources. Data collection tools such as; FGD, KII, direct observation, and formal survey were used. A total of 122 sample youths were interviewed and analyzed through a logistic regression model. The SPSS software version 20 was used to analyze and estimate the data survey data.. Based on the results, the sex of the respondent, marital status, agricultural risk insurance, and distance from the enterprise center to the market was the major factors impeding the decisions to participate in micro and small agricultural enterprises in the study area. Agricultural enterprises participations have benefit for the individuals, Such benefits include the creation of new job opportunities, purchasing agricultural inputs by their own, construction of new houses and/or sheds, and so on. In reverse, some factors hinder youth participation in agribusiness, these are a delay of loan provision, the limited amount of credit provided, lack of infrastructure like road, water, electricity, access; shortage of enterprise-specific training provision and follow-up, small farmland provision, and shortage of feed availability. So the government and other respective stakeholders should work in these terms to motivate youth to further to buid their livelihood sources .So institutional follow-up, intervention in infrastructure, and capacity development should be taken for the effectiveness of the enterprises.
Keywords: Agricultural enterprises, Micro, Small-scale, youth, Ethiopia.
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Alemayehu Bashe, 
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