@article{Freeman:174522,
      recid = {174522},
      author = {Freeman, H.A. and Ehui, Simeon K. and Jabbar, Mohammad A.},
      title = {Credit constraints and smallholder dairy production in the  East African highlands: application of a switching  regression model},
      journal = {Agricultural Economics: The Journal of the International  Association of Agricultural Economists},
      address = {1998-09},
      number = {968-2016-75275},
      pages = {12},
      year = {1998},
      abstract = {Accurate assessment of farmers' credit constraint  condition is important in order to understand the  circumstances under which
credit would have its greatest  impact. In this study a switching regression model was used  to determine the impact of credit on
smallholder dairy  farms in the East African highlands using farm level data  from Ethiopia and Kenya. Farmers were classified
as credit  constrained or credit non-constrained based on their  responses from the farm level surveys. No consistent  relationship
was found between farmers' credit constraint  condition and their borrowing status. Most of the variation  in milk output per
farm was explained by the number of  crossbred milking cows in the dairy herd. As credit is  likely to facilitate investment in
crossbred dairy cows it  will have substantial impacts on smallholder dairy farms  especially if it is targeted to credit constrained
farms. ©  1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/174522},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.174522},
}