Analyses Of Impact Of Improved Dairy Technology Adoption On Smallholder Household Livelihoods And Milk Value Chain In Selected Zones Of Oromia And Amhara National Regional States Ethiopia

This study was carried out in Amhara and Oromia National Regional States of Ethiopia withrnthe study objectives to describe the milk production and milk utilization patterns of thernsmallholder farmers, to analyze the raw milk value chain and milk marketing systems, tornidentify the determinants of raw milk quality at farm level, to identify the determinants of dairyrntechnology adoption and analyze its impact on household livelihoods of smallholder farmers.rnTotally, 384 randomly selected smallholder farmers from six study sites were included in thernstudy. Data were collected by questionnaire survey, farm observations, group discussions andrnmilk samples were also collected for both microbial and phyico-chemical analysis. BothrnStatistical Package for Social Science (SPSS version 17.00) and STATA, version 11 softwarernwere used for analyses. Pearson correlation, multiple regression, descriptive statistics,rnanalysis of variance (ANOVA) and econometric models such that Heckman two-stage modelrnand propensity score matching (PSM) were also used. About 28% of the interviewed farmersrnwere females that produced a significantly (P

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