DETERMINANTS OF MARKET PARTICIPATION IN SMALL SCALE BEEF CATTLE ENTREPRENEURS: EVIDENCE FROM PABNA AND SIRAJGANJ DISTRICTS OF BANGLADESH

P K Sarma, J U Ahmed A K M A Al-Amin, M M Islam and K Fatema
Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University, Volume 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 289-297

Abstract:

The study was designed to determine the factors that influence the cattle farmers to participate and motivate in cattle marketing and preferred marketing channels in special focus on Pabna and Sirajganj Char areas of northern Bangladesh. Purposive sampling “snowballing” procedure was employed to contact 180 respondents. Semi-structured questionnaires were used to collect data from small-scale cattle farmers through face to face interview. The data was analyzed using the Heckman two-stage selection model and Multinomial logistic regression model. Six factors were identified motivating cattle farmers to choose marketing channel namely, the gender of the household head, marketing information received, education and number of cattle sold. It was found that age, gender, level of education and hard size significantly influenced the decision to participate in cattle marketing. Gender, price information, group marketing, marketing experience, vehicle ownership and marketing under contract significantly influenced the extent of market participation. Further, gender, group marketing, hard size, price information, marketing under contract and vehicle ownership significantly influenced the choice of cattle marketing channels. The study strongly recommends increasing the number of cattle marked through formal channels and need to lower transaction cost, increase bargaining power, increase the hard size, access to information and participation in terminal markets. The current policy advice should focus on the effects of policy distortions and adequate attention should be given to the serious, embedded institutional deficiencies that limit many commercial farmers from taking advantage of market opportunities.

Keywords:

Cattle entrepreneurs, influencing factors, market participation


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P K Sarma, J U Ahmed A K M A Al-Amin, M M Islam and K Fatema. 2014. DETERMINANTS OF MARKET PARTICIPATION IN SMALL SCALE BEEF CATTLE ENTREPRENEURS: EVIDENCE FROM PABNA AND SIRAJGANJ DISTRICTS OF BANGLADESH, Journal of the Sylhet Agricultural University 1(2): 289-297.