Market Outlet Choice and Its Effects on the Welfare of Smallholder Vegetable and Fruit Producers in Ethiopia

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

Remarks on the content:

Material and Methods

·       Line 88: Is this a separate survey conducted by yourself? Or is this the questionnaire from the ESS?

·       In this context, where does the data on consumer spending come from (line 136). Do these also come from the ESS? Why are these data not included in table 2?

·       Line 133: To which program does this statement refer.

·       Line 144: Reformulate this statement.

·       Table 1:
These are the results of your model? Or are these data from statistics?
Are you sure that farmers only use one market outlet? Or is that a result of the chosen model approach?

·       Table 2:
How is the level of education defined?
(The table should be reformatted to improve readability).

·       Table3:
How are plus/minus interpreted? The “distance to main roads”/ Roadside VS Main Market is -0.009 but you wrote in line 200: “The effect was positive and significant for producers choosing roadsides as the market outlet”
line 217: “In this case, the producers cooperative could help producers generate higher incomes just like main market outlets” From which data is this statement supported?

·       Line 245: is the word “controlling” correct?

·       Table 4: The table should have a heading that better describes the content.
Line 252: “In the case of the agricultural cooperatives, though producers cooperative could help producers market their products more effectively to generate higher incomes just like main market outlets[20], its impact on the welfare of the household is insignificant”. How is this supported by your results?

Formal remarks:

·       References: The references are not correct everywhere in the text (see line70, 96)

·       The numbers should reformatted in table 2 + 3. Use the same number of decimal places.

·       Some sentences are incorrect or poorly worded. (line 103, 113 etc.)

·       Formular (2) is incorrect.

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Reviewer 2 Report

The article deals with an interesting topic that may be of interest to readers.

The following changes should be made before the article is published:

1) The abstract does not say on which studies the results were based.

2) The introduction writes about the importance of fruit and vegetable production in Ethiopia, and the problems of producers. However, no statistics - on production, farm size, etc. - were cited.

3) The literature review should be enriched, with more reference to studies by other authors.

4) There is no clear rationale for the choice of independent variables in the model.

5) The summary seems vague, too general.

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Round 2

Reviewer 1 Report

Please check for spelling errors and the use of the correct tense:

line 173-174 for example:

... examined the determinants of smallholder vegetable producers’ decision on market outlet choice and verify verified the existence ..

line 175: ...of differences in productivity and income of households

Author Response

We are very much grateful for your constructive comments in both the rounds

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

I believe the article is fit for print. The authors have corrected the manuscript as recommended.

Author Response

We are very much grateful for all constructive comments in both the rounds.

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