Review on Factors Affecting Youth Participation in Agribusiness in Ethiopia

Taddesse Moreda

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Review on Factors Affecting Youth Participation in Agribusiness in Ethiopia

Taddesse Moreda

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Abstract

Ethiopian agriculture is the largest sector which is approximately employing 85% of the country’s population. Out of labor forces working in agriculture in Ethiopia, young people share about 50 percent. This review has addressed three specific objectives (assessing contributions of agribusiness in creating employment opportunity for youth, identifying factors affecting youth participation in agri-business and assessing types of agribusiness in Ethiopia). Agriculture which includes crop production, animal husbandry, forestry, fisheries and apiculture remains by far the most important sector of the Ethiopia from which livestock constitute the largest component of the country’s agricultural sector. Despite agribusiness plays great role in employing people, youth are challenged by many problems in agribusiness. Limited access to land, inadequate access to financial services, gender or sex, backwardness of agricultural tools, and attitudinal problems are some of the challenges for youth involvement and advancement in agribusiness. Therefore, providing improved credit system, equally distributing available land and aiding youth to conserve soil, improving extension system through providing incentives to participants and creating more awareness in changing attitudes of community and youth toward agriculture, providing gender awareness, introducing good varieties and animal species and introducing new technological tools are recommended to accelerate their participation and success in agribusiness.

Published in	Plant (Volume 8, Issue 3)
DOI	10.11648/j.plant.20200803.15
Page(s)	80-86
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Youth, Participation, Challenges, Agribusiness, Ethiopia

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Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture and Natural Resource, Mekdela Amba University, Tulu Awuliya, Ethiopia

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