Marketing Practices and Constraints of Pig Production under Small Scale Intensive Farming in East Shewa, Ethiopia

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Author	Berihu, Mulugeta Tamir, Berhan
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	This study was undertaken to describe the marketing practices and constraints of small scale intensive pig production in east Shewa, central Ethiopia. Results were based on cross-sectional survey on 105 households using structured questionnaires. Weight balace was emplyed by higher (p<0.05) percentage of respondents in Addis Ababa and Bishoftu than in Adama. The number of respondents which sold live pig were larger (p<0.05) in Addis Ababa and Adama than in Bishoftu. The mean price of live pig per kg was higher (p<0.05) in Addis Ababa (89.86±1.91) and Bishoftu (89.25±2.67) than Adama (69.3±4.5). Correspondingly, the average price of pork per kg was larger (p<0.05) in Addis Ababa (119±2.8) and Bishoftu (119.3±2.7) than Adama (98.3±3.8). The overall results indicated that there was a threefold increase in price of live pig and pork in relation to current, in the past ten years and last ten years. The pig marketing constraints in Bishoftu and Adama were lack of functioning abattoir (rank=1), price fluctuation (rank=2), high cost of transportation (rank=3), lack of price information (rank=4) and lack of market channel (rank=5) while the corresponding rank values in Addis Ababa were 4, 1, 5, 3 and 4. This implied that pig marketing obstacles varied among the study sites. Therefore, location specific development interventions should be formulated to increase the productivity of pigs and thereby improve the income and livelihood of smallholders.
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