Abstract
The study was conducted in Abobo district, Agnwua zone in Gambella, Ethiopia. The study aim at analysis of fish market chain. Despite some study were carried out in different regions of the country which provided empirical evidence for the improvement of the fish market chain, no study was undertaken in the study area. As a result, there is strong need to study market chain in the study area. Therefore multistage samplings were used to select district from the zone, producer and traders. Thus primary were collected from randomly selected 124 producer using semi structure interviews. Then 30 fish trader were selected purposively. Thus, Primary data were collected by using semi structure interviews, key informant, focus group discussion and field observation for both fish producer and trader. Descriptive statistics were used to characterizing fish producer, traders, market performance. Econometric model were used to identify factors determining fish supply. Fish producer are confronted with seasonality and weather, lack motorized boat, lack of government support, fishing net theft and crocodile attack problem. While in marketing, price fluctuation, lack of market information, lack of transport, poor linkage with traders, perishability and lack of proper storage facility are the major problems. MLR result confirmed that, family size, distance to market, access to off farm are the factors determining quantity of fish marketed and exceptional to total quantity of fish produced other variable affected negative. The top four fish traders controlled 66.49% of fish trading. Therefore fish markets are strong oligopoly market. Thus, market performances are inefficient in channels IV and V. Thus, wholesalers marketing margin share is highest while producer is lowest from TGMM. To enhance the ability of fish producer to produce market structure government has develop cooperative to enhance the bargain power it believed to be way to improve it structure. Based on finding the following recommendations are forwarded. Therefore, government, and stakeholder has to play crucial role in addressing problem determining quantity fresh fish marketed and to enhance quantity of fish supply to market by fish producer. Keywords: Fisheries, Abobo, Market performance, multiple linear regression. DOI : 10.7176/DCS/10-1-04 Publication date: January 31 st 2020
Highlights
It is one of the fish producers have obtained the service from formal credit institutions and zero otherwise.If the producer gets access to the credit service, the volume of the product supplied to market increased (Alemnewu, 2010; Mohammed, 2011)
As the survey result revealed in Table (17) That from the total sample traders, regarding the purchasing price setting 10 percent were set by fish traders, 66.7 percent were by demand and supply and 23.3 percent were set by negotiations
In the study area the price of fresh fish may vary across the channel, season and quantity of purchase per kilo gram or quantity and it can vary from landing site
Summary
Focused on market chain, analyzing factors determining quantity of fish marketed, examining the fish market performances and productions and marketing constraint and opportunity in Abobo district in Agnwua zone in Gambella Ethiopia. Fish producer sampling Procedure For this study multi-stage sampling technique was used to select Abobo district from Zone based on its great fish production potential per year (FAO, 2014). Access to credit (ac_crd): it is dummy variable measured in terms of whether the household fish producers obtained has accessed credit service or not It is one of the fish producers have obtained the service from formal credit institutions and zero otherwise.If the producer gets access to the credit service, the volume of the product supplied to market increased (Alemnewu, 2010; Mohammed, 2011). Access to the modern transport facility can affect the quantity of fish supply to the market significantly and positively Gnigwo (et al, 2018)
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