Abstract
A cross sectional study was conducted with the objectives to assessing beef cattle production and trading system in eastern Oromia. Structured questionnaire and a onetime observation were conducted on 50 producers and 40 traders a total of 90 beef cattle producers and traders, which were, include purposively in the study using random sampling techniques to generate set data. Based on the result of survey made the producers kept cattle for multiple purposes, on average age of 6-9 years. Most farmers sold animals in near by village market. Major constraints for producers were feed shortage, animal health and lack of improve breeds. Traders transported mixed cattle in irrespective of ages, breeds, and sex to their destination which was on average 118.5±19 km via vehicle. Harar breed had high demand in local market while Boran was used for export purpose. The perception of traders on factors affecting the quality of beef indicated that beating, feed shortage, and agroecology were important being ranked 1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd respectively. From this study, it was concluded that quality of beef produced in study areas was relatively older. Resulted tough beef source. It is recommended that strategy should be developed to encourage premium payment for young cattle marketing that is not exposed to draft service and develop strategy to breed improvement to overcome stock decreases. Keywords : Beef, Cattle age, Feed resource, Perceptions DOI : 10.7176/FSQM/85-04 Publication date :March 31 st 2019
Highlights
Ethiopia owns immense untapped livestock resources scattered over diverse agroecology
Even though the country is blessed with huge livestock resources, the share of meat and other slaughter by-products were underutilized compared to its potential (Eyob and Zewudu, 2016)
Cattle are kept mainly for draft power, milk and manure production and are usually only sold when they are too old for these purposes, or drought or cash shortages force people to sell (Matawork, 2017). This happened in Ethiopia due to knowledge gap, limited promotion done in marketing; limited intra-Africa trade integration; poor linkage among stakeholders; few market outlets and other interlinked problems (EMDIDI, 2016)
Summary
Ethiopia owns immense untapped livestock resources scattered over diverse agroecology. Cattle are kept mainly for draft power, milk and manure production and are usually only sold when they are too old for these purposes, or drought or cash shortages force people to sell (Matawork, 2017). This happened in Ethiopia due to knowledge gap, limited promotion done in marketing; limited intra-Africa trade integration; poor linkage among stakeholders; few market outlets and other interlinked problems (EMDIDI, 2016). There are three different type of beef cattle production system in Ethiopia Those are traditional methods, Hararghe fattening and by product based production system. The study was conducted with the objective to assess beef cattle production and trading practice, production and marketing constraint, breed and age preference for marketing and perception for beef quality determinants in Eastern Oromia
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