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In the Guji Zone, even though cereal crop production volume has shown an increasing trend by 100.5% between 2011 and 2020, the proportion of cereal crops that are marketed has declined by 12.9% during the same years. This study was designed to analyze determinants of cereal crop commercialization in the Guji Zone. The study used cross-sectional data collected in 2019 from a sample of 288 farm households. The study showed that farmers in the Guji Zone were semi-commercially oriented in the cereal crops output market with an average level of cereal crops commercialization of 48.33%. The ordered probit model result revealed that the level of cereal crops commercialization was significantly explained by sex of the household heads, ownership of equines, cultivated land size, the frequency of extension contact, credit use, the value of crops produced, and household’s medium perception about lagged crop price. Thus, the level of cereal crops commercialization can be improved by increasing the frequency of extension contact, agricultural credit supply at low cost, and use of strategies that promote intensive agriculture such as warranting of the availability of modern agro-inputs at affordable prices, and promotion of the adoption and use of modern agro-inputs by farm households.

In the Guji Zone, even though cereal crop production volume has shown an increasing trend by 100.5% between 2011 and 2020, the proportion of cereal crops that are marketed has declined by 12.9% during the same years. This study was designed to analyze determinants of cereal crop commercialization in the Guji Zone. The study used cross-sectional data collected in 2019 from a sample of 288 farm households. The study showed that farmers in the Guji Zone were semi-commercially oriented in the cereal crops output market with an average level of cereal crops commercialization of 48.33%. The ordered probit model result revealed that the level of cereal crops commercialization was significantly explained by sex of the household heads, ownership of equines, cultivated land size, the frequency of extension contact, credit use, the value of crops produced, and household's medium perception about lagged crop price. Thus, the level of cereal crops commercialization can be improved by increasing the frequency of extension contact, agricultural credit supply at low cost, and use of strategies that promote intensive agriculture such as warranting of the availability of modern agro-inputs at affordable prices, and promotion of the adoption and use of modern agro-inputs by farm households. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]