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The impact of the collapse of Kenya Co-operative Creameries on smallholder dairy farmers' income: a study of Chepkorio Division - Keiyo

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Chebii, Patrick K.
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	The focus of die research is on die smallholder dairy fanners It studied the consequences of the (xrllapse of Kenya Co-operative Creameries on the farmers' income and how this has impacted on their welfare, their diversification of farm activities and die dairy farming improvement. The stidy was undertaken in Chepkorio Division, which has a total of 13,393 households. There axe 8 dairy co-operative societies in die Division. The sample units were obtained by use of probability sampling techniques. More specifically the study used die multistage cluster sampling procedure. 80 dairy farmers and 2 key informants were sampled as a representadve of the population. Structured interviews were used in collecting data both from the sampled dairy-farming households and key informants. Ihe impacts of the collapse of KCC on farm households are die units of analysis. The units of observation were the dairy farmers of Chepkorio Division. The collected data has been analyzed by use of sociri statistical techniques, bodi inferential and descriptive and then presented by use of percentiges, frequencies, charts, graphs and tables. The study is important on the basis that it is the beginning to the process of poverty alleviaton in the rural areas where farming is the major economic activity. It will highlight other fanning opportunities diat exist as sources of income apart from dairying. Hopefully it will also .pave way for diversifying the sourcing of raw milk by the new milk processors.
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