Oral Health and Dental Management

Dairy value chain analysis in Harar and Dire Dawa milk-shed areas, Ethiopia

17^th World Congress on Oral Care and Probiotics

November 14-16, 2016 Orlando, USA

Tarekegn Getachew Daba

Haramaya University, Ethiopia

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Oral Health Dent Manag

Abstract:

The study is aimed at mapping the dairy value chain, assessing constraints and opportunities for the development of the dairy sector, and identifying factor affecting channel choice decisions of smallholder dairy producers in and around Harar and Dire Dawa milkshed areas. Necessary data were collected from a total of 93 producers, six collectors, seven wholesalers, seven retailers, and ten consumers in the study areas. To analyze the collected data, both descriptive and multinomial logit model were employed. The descriptive statistics result obtained indicates that producers mostly sell the raw milk to collectors and to consumers as compared to the other actors. Collectors, on the other hand, sell the milk to wholesalers and retailers, and wholesalers mainly sell the milk to retailers. Almost all of the dairy farmers own local dairy cattle breeds. The channel choices available to producers include selling to collectors, wholesalers, retailers, and directly to consumers. Considering collectors as a base channel, the multinomial model output indicated that area dummy, breed type, availability of separate milking place, and supply of hay were found negatively and significantly determining the producers choice to sell to wholesaler, retailers, and consumers. In contrast, education status of the household head and the period in which milk stays after milking were found to positively and significantly determine producers�?? choice to sell not to collectors. The major recommendations include provision of training and credit and encouraging farmers to involve in collective actions, among others.

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