Status and drivers of village poultry production and its efficiency in Ethiopia

Q1 Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Aklilu Hailemichael , Berhanu Gebremedhin , Azage Tegegne
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Abstract

In many developing countries like Ethiopia village poultry makes up a large part of the national poultry meat and egg production and plays important roles economically, nutritionally, and socio-culturally. Households in Ethiopia have not fully benefitted from the potential of village poultry as little attention is given to the sub-sector from research and development efforts. The little research and development efforts tend to explore improvements largely via technical approaches by overlooking the socio-economic and institutional context under which the producers operate. This study aims to identify the technical, household, infrastructural and institutional drivers or barriers that influence village poultry production and its productivity in Ethiopia. Across sectional survey of 5004 households was undertaken in the four highland regions of Ethiopia. Descriptive statistics and econometric tools such as probit and Heckman’s two stage models and their marginal effects were used to analyze the status and driving factors of village poultry production and productivity. Distance to all weather roads decreased flock size and the probability of poultry ownership. Contact with development agents and participation in training increased flock size and the probability of purchasing inputs and adopting commercial breeds. Flock size and ownership of commercial breeds raised households’ likelihood of purchasing poultry input. Our results indicate that research and development efforts have to improve not only production performance through better use of inputs and technologies but also have to equally emphasize increasing the benefits for smallholder producers by providing infrastructural and institutional support to proper target households.

埃塞俄比亚乡村家禽生产的现状和驱动因素及其效率
在埃塞俄比亚等许多发展中国家,乡村家禽占全国禽肉和禽蛋生产的很大一部分,在经济、营养和社会文化方面发挥着重要作用。埃塞俄比亚的家庭没有充分受益于乡村家禽的潜力,因为研究和开发工作很少关注这一分部门。小规模的研究和发展努力往往主要通过技术方法探索改进,而忽略了生产者运作的社会经济和体制背景。本研究旨在确定影响埃塞俄比亚乡村家禽生产及其生产力的技术、家庭、基础设施和体制驱动因素或障碍。在埃塞俄比亚的四个高地地区对5004个家庭进行了横断面调查。采用probit和Heckman两阶段模型及其边际效应等描述性统计和计量经济学工具,分析了农村家禽生产和生产力的现状及其驱动因素。距离全天候道路的距离降低了畜群规模和家禽拥有权的可能性。与发展机构的接触和参加培训增加了畜群的规模和购买投入物和采用商业品种的可能性。畜群规模和商业品种拥有量提高了家庭购买家禽投入品的可能性。我们的研究结果表明,研发工作不仅必须通过更好地利用投入和技术来提高生产绩效,而且还必须同样强调通过向适当的目标家庭提供基础设施和体制支持来增加小农生产者的利益。
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Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences
Njas-Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences 农林科学-农业综合
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期刊介绍: The NJAS - Wageningen Journal of Life Sciences, published since 1952, is the quarterly journal of the Royal Netherlands Society for Agricultural Sciences. NJAS aspires to be the main scientific platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research on complex and persistent problems in agricultural production, food and nutrition security and natural resource management. The societal and technical challenges in these domains require research integrating scientific disciplines and finding novel combinations of methodologies and conceptual frameworks. Moreover, the composite nature of these problems and challenges fits transdisciplinary research approaches embedded in constructive interactions with policy and practice and crossing the boundaries between science and society. Engaging with societal debate and creating decision space is an important task of research about the diverse impacts of novel agri-food technologies or policies. The international nature of food and nutrition security (e.g. global value chains, standardisation, trade), environmental problems (e.g. climate change or competing claims on natural resources), and risks related to agriculture (e.g. the spread of plant and animal diseases) challenges researchers to focus not only on lower levels of aggregation, but certainly to use interdisciplinary research to unravel linkages between scales or to analyse dynamics at higher levels of aggregation. NJAS recognises that the widely acknowledged need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research, also increasingly expressed by policy makers and practitioners, needs a platform for creative researchers and out-of-the-box thinking in the domains of agriculture, food and environment. The journal aims to offer space for grounded, critical, and open discussions that advance the development and application of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research methodologies in the agricultural and life sciences.
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