Production and Marketing Behaviour of Hadiya Pastoralists Southern Ethiopia

Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www. iiste. org ISSN 2224-5766(Paper) ISSN 2225-0484(Online) Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011 17 | P a g e www. iiste. org Production and Marketing Behaviour of Hadiya Pastoralists, Southern Ethiopia Misginaw Tamirat... More

Research on Humanities and Social Sciences www. iiste. org ISSN 2224-5766(Paper) ISSN 2225-0484(Online) Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011 17 | P a g e www. iiste. org Production and Marketing Behaviour of Hadiya Pastoralists, Southern Ethiopia Misginaw Tamirat (Corresponding author) Jimma University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension. PO. Box 307, Jimma Ethiopia Email:misgina. tamirat@gmail. com Dawit Alemu Research Extension and Farmers Linkage Ethiopian Institute for Agricultural Research, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ayalneh Bogale African Centre for Food Security, University of Kwazulu Natal Pietermaritzburg Scottsville 3209 South Africa. The research is financed by Institute of Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Studies Abstract The paper characterises Hadiya pastoral cattle production system by explaining the nature of production and marketing. Both secondary and primary data were employed. Face to face interviews focus group and key informant discussions took place in the two district Less