Pinnacle Agricultural Research & Management
(ISSN: 2360-9451)
December 2013, Vol. 1 (2).
© Author(s) 2013. This work is distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Research Article
An Evaluation of Participatory Research: the Case of Maize Growers in Central Rift Valley of Ethiopia
Wole Kinati1,
K.P.M Chinna2
& Adam Bekele3
1Researcher, 2Assistant Professor, 3Senior Researcher Accepted 13 December,
2013; Available Online 23 December, 2013
In the course of
institutionalizing participatory research in the
research system of the country for tangible impact
on the client, the project on “Strengthening
Technology Development, Verification, Transfer and
Adoption through Farmers Research Group (FRG)” was
implemented from 2004 to 2009. A group of farmers
were established as maize FRG working on maize
improvement in two districts. In order to evaluate
the impact of the intervention by analyzing the
changes observed as a result of the intervention, a
cross sectional data were collected from a total of
180 randomly identified participants and
non-participants. The results of inferential
statistics performed revealed that there is a
statistically significant difference between program
and non-program participant households in terms of
major cultivation practices. Program participants
are found to have more productivity and income as
compared to their counterparts. Further analysis is
recommended using appropriate econometric models
that addresses differences due to other factor. [
Oromia Agricultural Research Institute,
Ethiopia.
Haramaya University,
Ethiopia.
Ethiopia Institute of Agricultural Research,
Ethiopia.
Abstract: