Analysis of G ender Role in Cattle Value Chain in Dugda Dawa District, Borena Zone, Ethiopia.

Abstract

This study was conducted to examine the gender roles in cattle value chain in Dugda Dawa district, Borena zone, with specific objectives of identifying gender roles in cattle value chain; examine the performance of actors in the chain; identifying the determinants of cattle supply to the market and assessing the major constraints and opportunities in cattle value chain. The data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The primary were collected from 194 pastoralists, 14 traders, five feed lot operators, 4 butchers and 4 hotel and restaurants. The study result showed that women were highly marginalized from economic benefit while they are burdened with work load in both production and reproduction role. The value chain map of the cattle consists of major actors such as input suppliers, producers, small traders, cooperatives, larger traders, and brokers, feed lot operators, exporters, butchers, hotel and restaurant owners and consumers. Large traders, feed lot operators, hotel and restaurants, butchers, and small scale traders share 24.28%, 18.37%, 16.11%, 13.4% and 14.28% profit margin respectively. While, producers doing all the work of producing cattle and bearing the associated risks, took only 13.50% of the profit margin. As market channels become long the profit that goes to producers tend to decline. The result of the Multiple linear regression models indicates that marketable supply of cattle is significantly affected by, number of extension contact, being cooperative member ship and sex of house hold head, positively and significantly at 1% and 10% of significant level respectively. Marketable supply of cattle was affected negatively and significantly by family size and woreda distance at 1% significant level.Some of the major constraints are identified to be lack of equality and equity, market, infrastructure, disease and health care, environmental degradation, lack of market forum and market oriented pastoral organization, and informal cattle trade. Therefore, policy aiming at promoting and ensuring gender equality and resource ownership, establishing market oriented pastoral organization to improve the benefit share