Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya
This study uses heteroskedastic Tobit and Censored Least Absolute Deviations models to examine the impacts of dairy cow ownership on selected outcomes for a sample of 184 households in coastal Kenya. The outcomes examined include gross household cash income, gross non-agricultural income, consumptio...
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| author | Nicholson, C. Thornton, Philip K. Muinga, R.W. |
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| description | This study uses heteroskedastic Tobit and Censored Least Absolute Deviations models to examine the impacts of dairy cow ownership on selected outcomes for a sample of 184 households in coastal Kenya. The outcomes examined include gross household cash income, gross non-agricultural income, consumption of dairy products, time allocated to cattlerelated tasks, number of labourers hired and total wage payments to hired labourers. The number of dairy cows owned has a large and statistically significant impact on household cash income; each cow owned increased income by at least 53% of the mean total income of households without dairy cows. Dairy cow ownership also increases consumption of dairy products by 1.0 litre per week, even though most of the increase in milk production is sold. The number of dairy cows has no significant effect on total labour for cattle-related tasks. However, in contrast to previous studies, labour allocation to cattle by household members decreases and labour requirements for dairy cows are met primarily by an increase in hired labour. Dairy cow ownership results in relatively modest increases in payments to hired labourers and the number of hired labourers employed. The large positive impacts on income and the substitution of hired for household labour in cattle care suggest that intensification of smallholder dairying can be beneficial as a development strategy in the region if disease and feed constraints are addressed. |
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| spelling | CGSpace329652023-12-27T19:32:10Z Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya Nicholson, C. Thornton, Philip K. Muinga, R.W. dairy cattle cows ownership households income consumption labour models hired labour small farms This study uses heteroskedastic Tobit and Censored Least Absolute Deviations models to examine the impacts of dairy cow ownership on selected outcomes for a sample of 184 households in coastal Kenya. The outcomes examined include gross household cash income, gross non-agricultural income, consumption of dairy products, time allocated to cattlerelated tasks, number of labourers hired and total wage payments to hired labourers. The number of dairy cows owned has a large and statistically significant impact on household cash income; each cow owned increased income by at least 53% of the mean total income of households without dairy cows. Dairy cow ownership also increases consumption of dairy products by 1.0 litre per week, even though most of the increase in milk production is sold. The number of dairy cows has no significant effect on total labour for cattle-related tasks. However, in contrast to previous studies, labour allocation to cattle by household members decreases and labour requirements for dairy cows are met primarily by an increase in hired labour. Dairy cow ownership results in relatively modest increases in payments to hired labourers and the number of hired labourers employed. The large positive impacts on income and the substitution of hired for household labour in cattle care suggest that intensification of smallholder dairying can be beneficial as a development strategy in the region if disease and feed constraints are addressed. 2004-07 2013-07-03T05:25:50Z 2013-07-03T05:25:50Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/32965 en Limited Access Wiley Journal of Agricultural Economics;55(2): 175-195 |
| spellingShingle | dairy cattle cows ownership households income consumption labour models hired labour small farms Nicholson, C. Thornton, Philip K. Muinga, R.W. Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya |
| title | Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya |
| title_full | Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya |
| title_short | Household-level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal Kenya |
| title_sort | household level impacts of dairy cow ownership in coastal kenya |
| topic | dairy cattle cows ownership households income consumption labour models hired labour small farms |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/32965 |
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