Commercial farming is all about the growing of crops and/or the rearing of animals for raw materials, food, or export, particularly for profitable reasons. In order to achieve the economy of scale, therefore, commercial farming needs to be very efficient and practiced on a large scale as the goal of the farmer is to maximize the profit margin. In Ethiopia, however, due to various reasons, commercial farms are not widely spread, and as a result of which the contribution of these farms to the country’s gross total agricultural output is limited only to about 5 percent. Therefore, the objectives of the 2012/13 large and medium-scale commercial farms survey are to provide statistical data on crop area and volume of production by the farm, and crop type to fill in the existing data gap and detailed data on various inputs applied for large and medium scale agricultural production.
Large and Medium Scale Commercial Farms Sample Survey 2012/13 (2005E.C) had covered 2289 farmers at the national level. The sample is allocated to each region based on the number of farms each region has. Two separate sample design is prepared for Commercial farms involved in crop production and livestock. Before the sample selection was done, the cut-off point for the farms was decided. A separate cut-off point for farms involved in crop production and those involved in livestock was set. In order to assure the data quality, CSA organized a two-stage training program that is a training of trainers and followed by training of supervisors. Data entered into the computer needs to be checked for completeness, consistency, and validity. For this purpose, computer edit programs were prepared. Additionally, an intermediate set of instructions or programs were made available and applied to the data to prepare information suitable for tabulation. Data made ready for tabulation through the process of cleaning and intermediate programs were finally used to generate the required tables. This was done using tabulation programs developed by the senior programmers of the Data Processing Department.
According to the results of the 2010/11 (2003 E.C) Large and Medium Scale Commercial Farms sample survey, total cropland area and production among temporary crops, the total area covered by grain crops was found to be 452,244.02 hectares (96.89 % of the total country-level temporary crops covered land area), from which a total of   9,327,412.24 quintals of production, (78.88% of the total country-level production of temporary crops) was obtained during 2010/11(2003EC) Meher season harvest.  Similarly, according to the survey result permanent crops covered a total land of 109,314.55 hectares with a total production of 33,761,029.85 quintals obtained from commercial farms during the year 2010/11 Meher season harvest. This area and production for permanent crops do not include the values of cotton. Finding associated with farm management practice revealed that at the country level the total Urea and DAP applied cropland area was found to be 134,173.39 and 136,502.64 hectares, which accounted for 21.77% and 22.14% of the total cropland area reported for Commercial farms in the country level, during the 2010/11 Meher season harvest.

• Commercial farm
• Fourth
• CSA
• Survey
• Livestock
• Agriculture
• Temporary crops
• Permanent crops
• Meher season
• Cropland area
• Production
• Meher season

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Large and Medium Scale Commercial Farms Sample Survey 2010/11(2003 E.C) dataset is produced by one of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Central Statistical Agency survey amongst the 2289 farmers at the national level. The sample is allocated to each region based on the number of farms each region has. The Large and Medium Scale Commercial Farms Sample Survey dataset captures information on area and production that includes the Region, Zone, Wereda, Farmers Association, Farm Name, Farm Type, Agriculture Type, Cultivation Season, Line Number, Crop code, Area of Cultivated land in hectare, Area of Cultivated land Measured by GPS in a hectare, Production in quintal, Amount production per hectare in Quintal, Crop Damage. Another data file on farm inputs and practice includes variables; Region, Zone, Wereda, Farmer Association, Farm name, Agriculture type, Cultivation Season, Line number, Chemical code, Crop code, Area of land, a Unit chemical used, Production per hectare, Amount of chemical used.
In order to assure the data quality, CSA organized a two-stage training program that is a training of trainers and followed by training of supervisors. A commercial farms sample survey was performed by interviewing the farm Owners/managers. Moreover, senior supervisors and coordinators who accomplish their assignment in the private peasant agricultural holdings enumeration were assigned as supervisors for quality control that includes spot check, re-interview, and check the consistency of information in the filled-in questionnaires…etc. Furthermore, the areas of these farms are directly measured by GPS except that of state-owned farms whose areas are collected by interview.
This report, therefore, presents quantitative information on total area, the volume of production and yield of major crops (temporary and permanent), and total crop area under different farm management practices as obtained and summarized from the results of the 2010/11 (2003 E.C.) commercial farms sample survey of the Meher Season. Furthermore, detailed data on various inputs applied for large and medium scale agricultural production mainly the number of Chemical fertilizers, improved seeds & indigenous seed.

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