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| Title: | Pattern of Management Interventions’ Adoption and their Effect on Productivity of Indigenous Chicken in Kenya |
| Authors: | Ochieng, Justus
Owuor, George
Bebe, Bockline Omedo |
| Authors (Email): | Ochieng, Justus (jastopheli@yahoo.com)
Owuor, George (Owuor2001@yahoo.com)
Bebe, Bockline Omedo (obebeb@yahoo.com) |
| Keywords: | Management Intervention Package
Productivity
Principal Component Analysis
Cluster Analysis
Smallholder
Technologies |
| Issue Date: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | Despite intensive dissemination of management intervention package, there is low productivity
and commercialization of indigenous chicken (Gallus domesticus) in Africa. The management
intervention package comprises feed supplementation, housing, chick rearing, brooding and
vaccination. Smallholder farmers often regard these management interventions as costly, risky,
unprofitable, and inaccessible and that they require high technical knowledge. This paper
emphasizes the role of management intervention package in productivity of smallholder
indigenous chicken farmers. Principal Component Analysis combined with Cluster analysis was
used to determine three homogenous groups adopting management interventions. The three
groups are; feed supplementation and vaccination adopters, feed supplementation and brooding
adopters and Full management intervention package adopters. The effect of these adopted
management interventions was then analyzed using log linear regression model which takes the
form of Cobb-Douglas production function. The results indicated that farmers who had adopted
full management intervention package as recommended by extension had higher productive
performance than farmers who modified and selectively adopted components of management
intervention package. Other socio-economic factors that significantly influenced productivity
were farm production assets, expenditure on feeds, labour, access to extension, group
membership and female gender. The study recommends the formulation and implementation of
pro-poor policies aimed at improving socio-economic conditions of the smallholders to enable
them fully adopt the recommended management intervention package. This would increase
productivity of indigenous chicken thereby improving food and income security in rural areas of
Africa. |
| Notes: | Contributed Paper presented at the China Agricultural Economic Review and International Food Policy Research Institute (CAER-IFPRI) 2010 Conference on Agriculture and the Wealth of Nations in Beijing, China, October 16-17,2010. |
| URI: | http://purl.umn.edu/102551 |
| Institution/Association: | International Food Policy Research Institute>Conference Papers |
| Total Pages: | 18 |
| Collections: | Conference Papers
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