Abstract
This study evaluated the impact of small-scale irrigation on farm households‟ technical efficiency of
production in Eastern, Oromia, Ethiopia. Both primary and secondary data were collected for the
study. Primary data were collected from 200 sample respondents drawn from both participant and
non-participant households in 2012 production year. Stochastic production frontier model was used
for technical efficiency estimation and Propensity score matching method was applied to analyze the
impact of small-scale irrigation on the farm household‟s technical efficiency with the help of logistic
regression function to estimate propensity scores. In matching processes, kernel matching with band
width of 0.5 was found to be the best matching algorism. Households that participate in irrigation
practice have got an improvement of 8.92% in technical efficiency than those households that were
not participating in irrigation practice. Participation in irrigation has a significant, positive and robust
impact on the outcome variables. The sensitivity analysis also showed that the impact estimates are
insensitive to unobserved selection bias. All results obtained from different models revealed the
positive impact of irrigation on farm household technical efficiency. Therefore, policy makers should
give due emphasis to the aforementioned variables to increase participation in irrigation farming and
improve the livelihood of rural households.
Beyan Ahmed, Jema Haji. (2014) IMPACT OF SMALL-SCALE IRRIGATION ON FARM HOUSEHOLDS’ TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY: THE CASE OF EASTERN OROMIA, ETHIOPIA, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Biology, Volume 2, Issue 4.
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