期刊名称：Journal of Agribusiness and Rural Development
印刷版ISSN：1899-5241
电子版ISSN：1899-5772
出版年度：2019
卷号：51
期号：1
页码：21-34
DOI：10.17306/J.JARD.2019.01162
出版社：Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu
摘要：Despite the efforts made to promote dairy marketing
cooperatives, smallholder dairy producers in rural Ethiopia
prefer informal markets to sell their dairy products. The
factors determining their preference towards formal markets,
such as membership in cooperatives, are not well identified.
This paper analyzes the key factors affecting smallholder
dairy producers’ membership in dairy marketing cooperatives
in Ethiopia using cross-sectional survey data from
73 cooperative members and 149 non-members, and probit
regression models. The authors found positive effects of
age, gender and education of household head and frequency
of extension services; and negative effects of distance to the
cooperative milk collection centers on the dairy producers’
preference for membership in dairy marketing cooperatives.
These findings imply the need for awareness initiatives:
strengthening extension services, trainings and demonstrations;
enhancing access to technology; and infrastructure
development. Particularly, affirmative action in the form of
targeted intervention is needed to enhance female-headed
households’ membership in dairy marketing cooperatives and
to help them benefit from collective actions.
