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Cattle marketing: Analysis of traders perceptions and market structures
Dr. Joshua OnonoPHPT- University of Nairobi
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Outline
• Introduction• Objectives • Material and methods• Results• Conclusion and future outlook
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Introduction
• Markets play a role in the exchange of ownership for livestock resources destined for breeding, fattening and slaughter.
• Markets acts as a hub for a bigger network which can enhance disease spread to other production systems and farms.
• A clear understanding on how markets operate and weaknesses in the networks is important information that can be used to strengthen disease surveillance activities.
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Objectives
• Describe perceptions of traders on constraints to cattle trading
• Analysis of market structure in arid and semi arid pastoral areas
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Material and Methods
Map of Kenya and study area
Data collection and analysis
• Participatory workshops
• Market surveys
• Marketing analysis - concentration index
and trader’s market share
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Materials and methods
Flow of animals from Tanzania towards Nairobi (Source: Zaal, 2011).
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Materials and methods
Number of cattle sold in markets, market sheds and destinations (Onono, 2013)
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Perceptions on constraints to trade (Onono, 2013)
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Perceptions on constraints to trade (Onono, 2013)
• Presence of practices which may enhance spread and maintenance of diseases and other health risks along cattle marketing chains
• The presence of drug residues, diseases, trekking of cattle and black market for meat may enhance spread of livestock diseases and also pose health risk to meat consumers
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Market concentration index (Onono, 2013)
Markets
Traders
Cattle
Mean
Med. Range Gini Lower bound
Upper bound
Garissa 29 3091 107 35 20-882 0.74 0.57 0.90
Ilbisil 93 847 9 4 1-128 0.74 0.65 0.83
Suswa 44 554 13 6 1-51 0.72 0.59 0.85
Ewaso 11 333 30 20 3-150 0.67 0.39 0.95
NB: Gini coefficient – this is a measure of market concentration (Ranges from 0 – 1)
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Lorenz curves and trader’s market share (Onono, 2013)
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Lorenz curves and trader’s market share (Onono, 2013)
• The presence of dominant traders along the cattle marketing chains
• The calculated concentration indices suggest an oligopolistic market structure tending to monopoly
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Future outlook
• What are cattle traders attitude towards purchase of animals which are diseased?
• What role does livestock markets play in the spread and maintenance of zoonoses?
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