Performance of Smallholder Dairy Farming in Nakuru County, Kenya

The Kenya dairy sub-sector has been undergoing developments since the 1980s in the areas of adoption of intensive dairy farming, especially zero grazing. There have been concerted efforts by the government and other development partners to commercialize the sub-sector so as to make it more profitabl...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:农业科学与技术：A 2012, Vol.2 (4), p.481-488
Main Author: Dennis Kinambuga Benjamin K. Mutai George Owuor Aquilars M. Kalio Emmanuel K. Kinuthia
Format: Article
Language:Chinese
Subjects:
多阶段抽样
奶牛养殖
小规模
性能
数据包络分析
测量单位
盈利能力
肯尼亚
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:The Kenya dairy sub-sector has been undergoing developments since the 1980s in the areas of adoption of intensive dairy farming, especially zero grazing. There have been concerted efforts by the government and other development partners to commercialize the sub-sector so as to make it more profitable to farmers, especially smallholder farmers, but the profitability in the sector continues to be variable with some smallholder farmers making losses. The causes of the varying profits have not been empirically established, with the influence of institutional arrangements and financial factors contributing to this inconsistency not fully established. This study dwelt on establishing the critical institutional arrangements and financial factors that constrain the profitability of smallholder dairy farmers in Nakuru County. A multi-stage sampling procedure was used to select respondents. Data were collected by structured interviews at the farm level. Data Envelopment Analysis （DEA） was used to come up with profit ef
ISSN:2161-6256