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Show 43 circumstances of the In early 1970s. spite of these efforts agrarian during the entire period employment The tested many times when imperial government introducing large-scale was stimulated by change of the and output. Within the account for much of national was to the structure of the economy, it remained imperial regime. agricultural sector, output. Productivity drought tried to was produce agricultural inputs (Wubneh 1990). holidays on and mass subsistence Program (MPP). These and later a on seeds. They agriculture imperial government and the elimination of custom what was the concept and revolution, and consisted mainly in the provision of improved starvation. called improve experience green revolution the Comprehensive scaled-down version called Minimum programs drew to agriculture by The government also tried to farming by introducing initially Package Program (CPP?3 fertilizers and by famine crops for exports, and the duties of peasant farming continued commercial farms. The increase in mechanization of the need to for agriculture on low. This structural backwardness change dependence incentives in the form of income tax productivity depended subsistence often followed provided on was It Package of the green inputs also introduced credit schemes and such as marketing structures. The programs 23The were largely ineffective, however. The land tenure system was by Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) in 1967, and was geographical area. As part of this, the Chilalo Agricultural Development Unit (CADU) was initiated in Arsi. Subsequently, other similar projects were introduced at Wolamo (Wolayita), with the assistance of the World Bank, and at Ada (Shewa province), with the help of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Based on CADU's experience, the CPP was found to be too costly for the Ethiopian government to adopt at the national level. A scaled-down version known as the Minimum Package Program (MPP) focusing on the provision of credit, extension services, and marketing, was recommended to be administered by the Extension and Project Implementation Department (EPID) of the Ministry of Agriculture. EPID expanded its services quickly and by 1974 there were more than twenty eight program areas with over 200 extension and marketing centers, mostly located along all-weather roads. CPP focused was on a introduced limited , |
