INAPPROPRIATE POLICIES AND WRONG PRIORITIES: INVISIBLE CAUSES FOR THE MEDIOCRE PERFORMANCE OF ETHIOPIAN AGRICULTURE
KASSA BELAY
Abstract
Different government intervention strategies were
studied. The results of the study show that efforts which have been made so
far by successive governments to develop the agricultural sector were inadequate
and in most cases not directed towards the real problems. It was also found
that the strategies have been top-down exercises in futility because they have
not paid due attention to the very people whom they were supposed to serve.
Key words:
Ethiopian agriculture, government interventions, development
strategies.