Transcript Cattle marketing: understanding traders perceptions and

Cattle marketing: Analysis of traders
perceptions and market structures
Dr. Joshua Onono
PHPT- University of Nairobi
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Outline
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Introduction
Objectives
Material and methods
Results
Conclusion and future outlook
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Introduction
• Markets play a role in the exchange of ownership for
livestock resources destined for breeding, fattening
and slaughter.
• Markets acts as a hub for a bigger network which can
enhance disease spread to other production systems
and farms.
• A clear understanding on how markets operate and
weaknesses in the networks is important information
that can be used to strengthen disease surveillance
activities.
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Objectives
• Describe perceptions of traders on constraints to
cattle trading
• Analysis of market structure in arid and semi arid
pastoral areas
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Material and Methods
Data collection and analysis
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Participatory workshops
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Market surveys
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Marketing analysis - concentration index
and trader’s market share
Map of Kenya and study area
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Materials and methods
Flow of animals from Tanzania towards Nairobi (Source: Zaal,
2011).
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Materials and methods
Number of cattle sold in markets, market sheds and destinations (Onono, 2013)
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Perceptions on constraints to trade (Onono,
2013)
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Perceptions on constraints to trade (Onono,
2013)
• Presence of practices which may enhance spread and
maintenance of diseases and other health risks along
cattle marketing chains
• The presence of drug residues, diseases, trekking of
cattle and black market for meat may enhance
spread of livestock diseases and also pose health risk
to meat consumers
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Market concentration index (Onono, 2013)
Markets Traders Cattle Mean Med. Range
Gini
Lower
bound
Upper
bound
Garissa 29
3091 107
35
20-882
0.74
0.57
0.90
Ilbisil
93
847
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4
1-128
0.74
0.65
0.83
Suswa
44
554
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1-51
0.72
0.59
0.85
Ewaso
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333
30
20
3-150
0.67
0.39
0.95
NB: Gini coefficient – this is a measure of market concentration (Ranges from 0 – 1)
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Lorenz curves and trader’s market share (Onono,
2013)
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Lorenz curves and trader’s market share (Onono,
2013)
• The presence of dominant traders along the cattle
marketing chains
• The calculated concentration indices suggest an
oligopolistic market structure tending to monopoly
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Future outlook
• What are cattle traders attitude towards purchase of
animals which are diseased?
• What role does livestock markets play in the spread
and maintenance of zoonoses?
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