Impact of management interventions on smallholder dairy farms of the western highlands of cameroon

A study was carried out to evaluate the impact of interventions to solve constraints in smallholder dairy farms of the Western Highlands of Cameroon. The interventions consisted of improved breeding through introduction of artificial insemination, better feed supplementation, farmers training in mil...

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Vydáno v:Tropical animal health and production Ročník 41; číslo 6; s. 907 - 912
Hlavní autoři: Bayemi, P. H, Webb, E. C, Ndambi, A, Ntam, F, Chinda, V
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Dordrecht Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands 01.08.2009
Springer Netherlands
Springer Nature B.V
Témata:
Animal Husbandry
Animal Husbandry - methods
Animals
Artificial insemination
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Breeding
Breeding - methods
Cameroon
Cattle
cows
crops
dairy farming
Dairy farms
Dairying
Dairying - economics
Dairying - organization & administration
economics
Farm income
Farmers
feeds
food processing
highlands
Income
Interventions
Life Sciences
Management Audit
Management Audit - methods
Management Audit - statistics & numerical data
methods
Milk
organization & administration
Original Paper
Partial budget
Poverty
small-scale farming
Smallholder dairy
statistics & numerical data
Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science
Zoology
Cameroon
Cameroon
Smallholder dairy
Interventions
Partial budget
ISSN:0049-4747, 1573-7438, 1573-7438
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Shrnutí:A study was carried out to evaluate the impact of interventions to solve constraints in smallholder dairy farms of the Western Highlands of Cameroon. The interventions consisted of improved breeding through introduction of artificial insemination, better feed supplementation, farmers training in milk processing and better veterinary services. Results show that there was a decrease in average monthly expenditures of 18% relative to the month before interventions started. Much of the expenditures were related to feed (38% of all costs). There was an overall increase in farm income. Close to 2/3 of the income were derived from milk products from home processed milk and culled animals. Only 7% income came from milk sold to the processing plant. The partial budget shows that before interventions, farmers lost $4.5/cow/month but gained $38/cow/month because of the interventions. The return was 2.32 and included opportunity income for milk home consumed and shared. When this opportunity income was ignored, the return stood at 1.93. The positive impact of interventions led to poverty alleviation and some farmers acquired more cows. A spill over effect is that more crop farmers are willing to be engaged at least partially in dairy farming. It will be good if many more farmers could benefit from these interventions.
Bibliografie:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11250-008-9278-3
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ISSN:0049-4747
1573-7438
1573-7438
DOI:10.1007/s11250-008-9278-3