Abstract
The study assessed determinants of livestock production development of smallholder farmers’ through identifying the constraints and opportunity to livestock production developments. The study adopted cross sectional survey design. The district was randomly selected from zones. A total of 99 respondents were selected from the kebele where by ten were female headed and 89 were male headed households. Descriptive statistics result showed that opportunities of livestock production development in the study area, availability of water, availability of market information, supply of improved breed, feed availability, credit services, veterinary services and mixed crop-livestock production system. Multiple linear regression analysis has been carried out to find out determinants of livestock production development of smallholder farmers’. The results of the multiple linear regression model showed that from a total of ten explanatory variables were included in the model, of which availability of grazing land, extension services, artificial insemination and veterinary service, availability of market information and education level were found to be statistically significant to livestock production development at 1%, and 5% significant level respectively.Keywords: Determinants, Livestock Production Development, Multiple Linear regressions Model
Highlights
Agriculture sector is plays a vital role in the economy of the country, It accounts for 43% of GDP, 85% of employment and 70% of export earnings (UNDP, 2013)
They are an important component of most farming systems in Ethiopia and provide draught power, milk, meat, manure, hides, skins and other products Funk C., et al, (2012).According to the results of a base line survey report by Central statically Agency (2013) despite the country has huge potential to produce livestock there are a chronic challenges of livestock production development in most part of the country
As different studies highlighted that livestock production and the productivity is proportionally lowered by various livestock management problems, prevalence of major endemic diseases, poor feeding and high stocking rate on grazing lands, lack of support services such as extension services, veterinary services, insufficient data to plan improved services and inadequate information on how to improve animal breeding, marketing, and processing Kedija et al, (2008)
Summary
Agriculture sector is plays a vital role in the economy of the country, It accounts for 43% of GDP, 85% of employment and 70% of export earnings (UNDP, 2013). According to the results Central statically Agency (2016) reveal that the recent livestock population of Ethiopia estimates that the country has about 57.83 million cattle, 28.89 million sheep, 29.70 million goats, 2.08 million horses,7.88 million donkeys, 60.51 million poultry, 5.92 million beehive, 0.41 million mules and about 1.23 million camels. The government through its research organizations supply different Agricultural technology to the community and others has deliberately developed artificial insemination technology, provided extension services up to community levels throughout the entire country, removed disease problem on livestock production. Despite those mentioned efforts done by the government, livestock production development has remained low to the extent of trailing in the study area. The study generally aimed at assessing determinants and opportunity to livestock production development of smallholder farmers’ through measuring elasticity of different inputs used in the production of livestock
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