Assessment of production and marketing system of goats in Dale District, Sidama Zone
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Assessment of production and marketing system of goats in Dale District, Sidama Zone
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Assefa, E.
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ANIMAL PRODUCTION
GOATS MARKETING |
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Production system and marketing study was undertaken using on 120 sample households to identify and describing goat production systems, to determine production potentials, opportunities and challenges of goat’s production and to describe marketing systems. Three The households were drawn from different location and represented three agro-ecologies; Moist Weyina Dega, Dega and Moist Kola. Sampled households were interviewed on socio economic characteristics, flock structure, reproductive performances of goats, feed resources and feeding, routine husbandry management systems and marketing using a pre-tested formal questionnaire. Flock monitoring to identify off take and acquisitions like birth, purchase, transfer and disposal like sales, slaughter, death was carried out for about seven months (September to March). Three primary, one secondary and one terminal markets were studied at Dale, Tula and Hawasa, respectively using Rapid Marketing Appraisal (RMA) technique. The average family size was 7.5± . 247 per household, out of which 5.6% of the households were females and there was no significant difference (p
Canadian International Development Agency |
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2010-02-22T11:14:30Z
2010-02-22T11:14:30Z 2008-06 |
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Thesis
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Assefa, E. Hawassa University, Awassa (Ethiopia). 2008. Assessment of production and marketing system of goats in Dale District, Sidama Zone. MSc thesis (Animal Production). 170p. Awassa (Ethiopia): Hawassa University.
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en
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application/pdf
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Hawassa University
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