Factors influencing the pastoralists' livestock income

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Instructor Plans: Agriculture / Forestry / Gardening, Dilla University, language: English, abstract: This study assesses the factors influencing pastoralists' livestock income in the Yabello district in Ethiopia. The study employed primary data collected through household surveys. The 120 respondents were participated in the survey process those culled utilizing systematic random sampling procedures. A multiple linear regression model and descriptive statistics analysis were acclimated to find the result of the study. Livestock plays a significant role in the pastoral economy of Yabello. Most of the sample households' income source comes from livestock production, crop production and off-farm activities. The prominent result is that livestock production is the largest source of income for the sample household in Yabello. The total household farm income, which is a contribution of income from livestock and crop production, contributes the highest share in total household income in the study area. The statistical descriptive analysis indicated that livestock income was significantly associated with household age, family size, livelihoods choice, market price, and livestock holding of the household heads. The regression model also shows the factors that determine livestock income of the household heads in the study area was family size, livelihood strategy, livestock sales, livestock market price, pastoral extension agent contact and breed type was statically significant at 1% probability level. Livestock disease, drought and conflict risk was statically significant at 5% probability level. The study suggests that these pastoralists' livestockincome-influencing factors should be cautiously incorporated in pastoral development policies in order to ameliorate the pastoral household's livestock income in the study area.

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The author was born in Dukem in 1989. He attended his primary education at Oda Nabe Elementary school and secondary education at Ada'a Model Secondary school and Bishoftu Preparatory school. Then he joined Adama University School of Business Administration, Management and Trade in 2007 and graduated with BA in Economics in July 10, 2010. He was employed in October 2010 in Oromiya road authority Borana Zone Dire district road and transport authority office on the position of Universal Rural Roads Access Program. From September 1, 2011, he was transferred to Borana Zone Road authority and served as planner on the position of planning, monitoring and evaluating expert until he joined the school of graduate studies for his master of science in Agricultural Economics at Dilla University in October 2014.