Determinants of processors' bamboo utilization level: The case of Bahir Dar city and Injibara town, Ethiopia

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Abstract Bamboo is a crucial non-timber forest resource, having a ubiquitous purpose applied in any sectors & can be anything products and plays the greatest role in the economic, social and ecological aspects and considered as a key of alleviating poverty for it can be utilized at all level industry. The bamboo resource is highly available in Ethiopia but it is underutilized. So the main objective of the study was to examine the determinants of processors' bamboo utilization level. An explanatory research design was employed to examine the effects of processors' awareness level, market demand, financial capacity, technological accesses, supporting market, and market linkage on the processors’ bamboo utilization level measured by bamboo product variety. The data was collected from bamboo processors via questioner held by trained data collectors from the entire bamboo processors found in Bahir Dar city and Injibara town and it was analyzed using ordinal logistic regression on SPSS 20 software package. The study revealed and concluded that access to technology, supporting market, processors’ awareness level, and financial capacity was a statistically significant determinant and positively affect bamboo utilization level, but market demand and market linkage were not statistically significant determinant. The study recommended that the government at each level shall give policy-based support & attention, and responsible agencies like TVED, MSE, trading and agricultural bureaus cooperating with the federal government and INBAR should prepare manuals, videos leaflets, skill-oriented training and experience sharing programs. The future researcher should extend the current study by adding more variables on expanded targets using other models by considering the interaction effects of independent variables, also they can conduct comparative studies of bamboo utilization level among different bamboo processors in different regions found in Ethiopia.

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