Appraisal of Smallholder Sheep Enterprise in the Central Highland of Ethiopia Using a Whole Farm Programming Model
1990
Woubshet Abebe | Anderson, Frank M. (Ambo Junior College of Agriculture, Ambo (Ethiopia))
This study was designed to analyze the technical and economic performances of smallholder-operated traditional sheep enterprises in the central highlands of Ethiopia around Debre Birhan. Enterprise level and whole farm input/output data from the study locality were collected and subjected to analysis using a representative single time linear programming (LP) model. The LP model is used to address the resource allocation problems of small holder farmers and to analyse the likely effect of technological innovations on the whole-farm productivity. Around Debre Birhan, the smallholder sheep enterprise is the most important source of farm income. Lack of feed supplies and low fertility of the local sheep breed were found to be the major constraints. The study indicated that productivity and farm income can be increased considerably by improving the feed supply and increasing the existing fertility status of the indigenous sheep breed.
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