dc.contributor.author | Emukule, Justus I | |
dc.contributor.author | Kipsat, Mary J | |
dc.contributor.author | Wambui, Caroline C | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-31T13:19:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-05-31T13:19:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-02-09 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.maseno.ac.ke/handle/123456789/529 | |
dc.description | Market participation in sub-Saharan Africa has been assessed mainly based on already
producing households by looking at whether they sold or not, and if they sold, what
quantities. The objective of this study was to determine the socio economic factors that
influenced households' decisions on market participation in terms of dairy cow ownership
and quantity of milk sold while taking into consideration the non-producers using Heckman
two stage model. The model allowed for not only determination of the effects of household
characteristics on volume of milk surplus sold by already producing households but also
drew inferences on the effect of household characteristics on probabilities of dairy cow
ownership whileadding new information to literature by generating the truncation effect. A
multistage sampling technique was used to select 544 producer and non-producer … | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Market participation in sub-Saharan Africa has been assessed mainly based on already producing households by
looking at whether they sold or not, and if they sold, what quantities. The objective of this study was to
determine the socio economic factors that influenced households’ decisions on market participation in terms of
dairy cow ownership and quantity of milk sold while taking into consideration the non-producers using Heckman
two stage model. The model allowed for not only determination of the effects of household characteristics on
volume of milk surplus sold by already producing households but also drew inferences on the effect of
household characteristics on probabilities of dairy cow ownership whileadding new information to literature by
generating the truncation effect. A multistage sampling technique was used to select 544 producer and
non-producer households and primary data collected using a semi structured interview schedule through personal
interviews. From the results, probit marginal effects for dairy cow ownership were associated positively and
statistically significant with household size, the level of education and land size owned by the households. The
Heckman selection estimates revealed that increased number of dairy cows per household positively influenced
the volumes of milk sold, while household size influenced negatively the quantity of milk sold. In conclusion,
milk sales conditional on dairy cow ownership suffered from negative selectivity bias whereby a household with
sample average characteristics who selected into dairy cow ownership secured 40% lower quantity of milk sold
than would a household drawn at random. | en_US |
dc.subject | community cooling plant, dairy cow ownership, heckman model, market participation, milk sales, truncation effect | en_US |
dc.title | Determinants of Households’ Market Participation around Community Milk Cooling Plants, Western Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |