Assessment Of Resilience Of Dairy Farming In Bishoftu And Asella Areas Oromia Regional State Ethiopia

This study was carried out in Bishoftu and Asella areas, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia with the objectives to identify the coping strategies that dairy farmers employ to deal with the shocks and stresses that they encounter in dairy farming, and to assess the resilience of dairy farming activities as part of socio-ecological systems. The data were collected from December 2017 to April 2018 by individual interview of 120 households (60 from Bishoftu and 60 from Asella), field observations and 8 focus group discussions. A STATA, version 12 software was used for analyses. The result showed that daily milk production were significantly higher for the entrepreneurial dairy farmer as compared to typical dairy farmers in both rainy and dry seasons (P

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