| Sumario: | This study determined production and market performance, through value chain analysis of dairy goats
and its products with gender perspective in Mvomero and Kongwa districts, Tanzania. The specific
objectives were: (i)To map key players of dairy goats and its products value chain (ii)To examine market
performance of dairy goats and its product (iii)To assess effect of gender on dairy goat profitability and (iv)To
examine the production performance of dairy goats. Data were collected from 106 farmers who kept 250 dairy
goats, 40 processors/collectors and 60 consumers. Descriptive statistics, gross margin, net margin analysis and
Data Envelope Analysis were carried with regard to each specific objective. The study found that the chain is
comprised of five key players with three main products. These key players were farmers, input
suppliers, grain millers, food vendors and consumers. The main products were fresh milk, manure, and
offspring. Based on market structure the dairy goat milk was accepted based on its nutritious value. On market
performance about 30% of the farmers had positive gross margin while 20% of farmers were making profit
through having positive net margin. Based on gender effect on profitability, there was no sufficient evidence
to reject the null hypothesis that there was no profit difference among different genders. For the case of
production performance technical efficiency was 0.75 in both output and input orientations. This indicates that
farmers were able to reduce 25% of the production cost to produce the same level of milk and manure, or they
could increase the output by 25% using the same level of input. On other hand, scale efficient was 0.77 on input
orientation. This further indicates that there was still a room to benefit on economic of scale, taking into
consideration about 90% of the farmers were operating on increasing return to scale.
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