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Production and Marketing Behaviour of Hadiya Pastoralists,
Southern Ethiopia
Misginaw Tamirat...
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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
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