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Table 2.3 Number of registered primary cooperatives and members by region, Ethiopia, 2007


Number of primary


Region cooperatives Amhara 4,223


Oromia 2,957 SNNP 5,512 Benshangul 1,32 Harrari 216 Gambella 81 Afar 202 Tigray 1,335 Addis Ababa Dire Dawa


7,262 7,15


Somali 449 Total


23,084 Male


1,637,069 658,763 892,788 6,675 5,288 1,144 4,971


356,868 n.a.


10,685 7,776


Members Female 258,996


58,284 126,076 1,742 2,258 2,553 3,649


282,425 n.a.


5,672 6,939


3,582,027 748,594 Total


1,896,065 717,047


1,018,864 8,417 7,546 3,697 8,620


639,293 338,321 163,57 147,15


4,668,942


Total capital (birr)


165,040,320 104,763,293 201,079,907 4,058,904 11,424,448 946,443


6,115,598 42,334,481 60,426,253 8,093,956 8,335,264


612,618,867


Source: Adapted from Meherka (2008). Notes: n.a. means not available; SNNP means Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples regional state.


Table 2.4 Household participation in cooperatives among smallholder farmers in Ethiopia


Smallholders Smallholders


participating in a cooperative


Percentage of


Region households Tigray


Amhara Oromia SNNP


20.40 14.48 7.35


Smallholders


with a cooperative in their kebele


Percentage of


Differencea households Ethiopia 9.14 — 39.59 —


0.0057 87.99 0.0630 46.34 0.3026 42.54


3.69 0.0000 18.49


participating when they have a cooperative in their kebele


Percentage of


Differencea households 16.87


0.0000 20.93 0.0000 24.29 0.0046 12.18 0.0000


Differencea —


0.3511 0.1362 0.1446


8.96 0.0391


Source: Authors’ calculations based on data from ESCS (2005). Notes: — means not applicable; SNNP means Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples regional state. A kebele is a peasant association, the smallest administrative unit in Ethiopia.


aTest of difference from national average: probability > F.


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