Abstract
The purpose of the study was to assess the impact of live animal export on meat and meat products export and to identify the major factors of the export. The study revealed that the number (volume) of live animal export reached highest level (783,888 heads) in 2012 and lowest (279,480 heads) in 2017. The volume of meat and meat products export has increased from 4,775 tons in 2008 to 19,779 tons in 2017.This might indicate that exporting live animals has an impact on meat and meat products export by limiting the supply of live animals to export abattoirs making them perform below their processing capacity. Seasonality and low supply of quality animals was ranked the first factor affecting the live animals, meat products export. Thus, the Ethiopian government and other concerned stakeholders should focus on implementing different strategies and legal frameworks to either stop or minimize live animal trade and export.
Highlights
Ethiopia has the largest livestock population in Africa
This might be due to occurrence of animal diseases leading to strong control mechanism on live animals which means live animal marketing system was based on letter of credit (LC) which holds most of the working capital of the exporters and an increased strong movement controls like the need for movement permits which incurs costs and time consuming and strict health certificate requirements for export
Impact of Live Animals Export on Meat and Meat Products Export Ethiopia has been exporting live animals for a number of years and this leads the country not to get the anticipated amount of income from value added products and unable to create the jobs to its citizens
Summary
The estimated total livestock population includes 59.46 million cattle, 30.7 million sheep, 30.2 million goats, 1.21 million camels, 59.5 million poultry, 6.19 million beehives and 11.01 million equines (CSA, 2016/17). This livestock sector has been contributing considerable portion to the economy of the country and plays an important role in providing export commodities, such as meat and meat by-products live animals, hides, and skins, finished leather products and leather products to earn foreign exchanges to the country. Ethiopia has been exported live animals to many different countries; mainly to Sudan, Somali, Egypt, Djibouti and Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates.
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