DETERMINANTS OF OILSEEDS AND PULSE EXPORT PERFORMANCE IN ETHIOPIA; THE CASE OF SELECTED EXPORTERS

Abstract

The performance of oilseeds and pulse export in Ethiopia encountered a number of influencing factors that deter its performance. The research address independent variables foreign price level, production/productivity, quality of the product, Infrastructure/rural feeder road availability and real effect exchange rate are critical. The major objective of this study was to identify and analyze to what extent those major determinants affect the performance of oilseeds and pulse export in Ethiopia. Multiple leaner regressions are employed using SPSS version 27 software to examine the effects of the selected variables on the performance of export oilseeds and pulse. From 200, oilseeds and pulse exporters 130 have been taken residing Addis Ababa city using simple random sampling( Carvalho’s) Sample Size Determination table)technique as primary sources of data. The findings implied that the foreign price level’ production/productivity, quality of the product and real effect exchange rate were found to be positively and significantly affect export performance. Whereas, and Infrastructure/rural feeder road were found not to be as such influential factors to deter performance of oilseeds and pulse export in Ethiopia. Based on the findings of the study it were recommended that enhancing productivity, keeping quality of the product, making stable foreign exchange rate and improve the foreign price level are all important