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Spearheading Development through Empowering Smallholder Farmers along Beef Cattle Value Chains: a Case of Goromonzi and Murehwa Districts, Zimbabwe

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Title Spearheading Development through Empowering Smallholder Farmers along Beef Cattle Value Chains: a Case of Goromonzi and Murehwa Districts, Zimbabwe
 
Creator Mujeyi, Angeline
 
Contributor Mutenje, Munyaradzi
Manyawu, Godfrey
Gwiriri, Lovemore
Chakoma, Irenie
 
Description Smallholder beef subsector can potentially contribute to the nation’s development. The paper presents the
results of the value chain analysis of the beef sub sector in Zimbabwe. Data was gathered through cross
sectional household survey of 380 beef farmers, six community focus group discussions, key informant
interviews and interviews of value chain actors. Empirical results showed that profitability of beef
marketing by farmers is constrained by low productivity caused by longer calving intervals, poor animal
husbandry practices and lack of market information .Three existing beef cattle value chains were identified.
A total of 91% of the producers sold cattle to the informal livestock market and only 9% through formal
market. Body condition, health of animal and age were reported as major factors used in setting cattle
prices. The study recommends setting up breeding programs, improved husbandry practices, improving
farmer access to market information and collective action among farmers.
 
Date 2016-09-20T11:16:32Z
2016-09-20T11:16:32Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/downloadmelspace/hash/2wEshHcK/v/ab58c156b1788ff71d74e62fbe44697c
Angeline Mujeyi, Munyaradzi Mutenje, Godfrey Manyawu, Lovemore Gwiriri, Irenie Chakoma. (4/12/2015). Spearheading Development through Empowering Smallholder Farmers along Beef Cattle Value Chains: a Case of Goromonzi and Murehwa Districts, Zimbabwe. International Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chains (IJMVSC), 6 (4), pp. 31-44.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4931
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher AIRCC Publishing Corporation
 
Source International Journal of Managing Value and Supply Chains (IJMVSC);6,(2015) Pagination 31-44