Abstract:
This study was designed to explore the determinant factors that influence smallholder dairy farmers’ decision to participate in the milk and milk product market to sell their product in Anglelatera Woreda. To examine this primary data was collected from 322-samples smallholder dairy farmers were randomly selected to collect from four rural kebele of Angolelatera. Descriptive statistics and binary logit regression model are used to analyze the data and estimate the dairy farmers' decision to milk and milk product market participation. The result of descriptive statistics implies that only 37.58% of the small holders’ dairy farmers are participating in the milk and milk product market in the Woreda. The binary logit regression model results proved that determinant like, extension service, family size, information accesses, milk yield per cow, and education level of household head, appropriateness of price of milk per liter, experience of dairy production of household head, sex of household head and non-dairy income source with the range of 1%-5% level of significance. If the significant variable of this study shows that, some of them increasing participation in one hand and will decrease on the other hand. Hence, the study suggests increasing farmers to diversified knowledge on milk and milk product market participation.
Keywords: Smallholders; logit; Dairy Marketing; Participation; Angolelatera; Amhara; Ethiopia.