期刊名称：Journal of Emerging Trends in Economics and Management Sciences
电子版ISSN：2141-7024
出版年度：2012
卷号：3
期号：4
出版社：Scholarlink Resource Centre
摘要：The study arises from the fact that the youth in both urban and rural areas are not only many but also jobless and idle. Most of them end up engaging in destructive and illegal activities such as alcoholism drug and substance abuse in both urban and rural areas. Previous studies point to the fact that the youth are less involved in dairy industry sector than the elderly. The main objective of this study was to identify strategic opportunities for the intervention among the youth in the dairy sector. With an aim of enabling the youth to start or expand income generating projects, several specific objectives were considered. The specific objectives include; identifying level of participation of the youth in the dairy sector, identifying preferable youth opportunities, potential facilitators and the way forward in enabling the youth increase income and employment in Uasin Gishu County. The population will include various stakeholders in the dairy industry; development agents and county youth officers among other key persons. Descriptive and explorative research designs were adopted. The sampling designs that were useful in this study included simple random sampling, purposive sampling and key person surveys. These sampling designs were used to obtain a sample of participants and stakeholders from each category in the dairy sector. Consultative and validation of results workshop was done. Data analysis was done using regression analysis, descriptive and various inferential statistics using SPSS. Key results in the study suggest that youth are disadvantaged in dairy industry mainly because of lack of capital resources such as land, lack of skills, and inadequate financial services. It was also observed that there are other economic opportunities such as boda boda (bicycle and motor bike transport) and poultry that the youth can easily start unlike dairy production. It was also confirmed that in the dairy sector opportunities for the youth include feed business, milk bars/vendor and milk transport business. These opportunities seem friendlier to the youth considering their current inadequate capacity financial and resource endowment. It was also established that there are a number of youth financial funding opportunities by various government departments such as the ministry of trade, ministry of youth affairs and sports, commercial banks but the youth are not aware or underutilized.
关键词：youth; alcoholism; diary industry; SPSS; Kenya.
