Marketing of cool-season food legumes [Pisum sativum, Lens culinaris, Cicer arietinum, Vicia faba]
1995
Beyene, H. (Institute of Agricultural Research, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia)) | Ayele, G. (Debre Zeit Agricultural Research Center (Ethiopia)) | Lakew, B. (Ministry of Foreign Trade, Addis Abeba (Ethiopia))
Pulses are the second most important crops next to cereals and are mainly grown by smallholders in the highlands of Ethiopia. Cool-season food legumes (CSFL) have the largest share of area and total production of all pulses. They are produced for domestic consumption and export. Marketing of CSFL occurs in three forms: by private traders, the Agricultural marketing Corporation (AMC) and the Ethiopian Oilseeds and Pulses Export Corporation (EOPEC). The AMC is a government organization granted the right to purchase pulses such as faba bean, field pea, chickpea and lentil from producers' cooperatives, service cooperatives, state farms and private merchants at a fixed price for sale in the domestic market. The EOPEC is another organization established by the government for the sole purpose of exporting oilseeds and pulses. Developing countries depend to a large extent on the export of primary products, mainly agricultural products such as CSFL, but the slowdown of Ethiopia's economic growth has reduced the supply of its agricultural products to the world market in general and CSFL in particular. This download trend of supply coupled with declining international prices of agricultural exports has worsened the foreign exchange earning ability and consequently Ethiopia's capacity to import other important commodities
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