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Price Spread Analysis of Cattle in Hadiya Pastoral Areas
Misginaw Tamirat Arficho (Corresponding...
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Journal of Biology, Agriculture and Healthcare www.
iiste.
org
ISSN 2224-3208 (Paper) ISSN 2225-093X (Online)
Vol 1, No.
1, 2011
59 | P a g e
www.
iiste.
org
Price Spread Analysis of Cattle in Hadiya Pastoral Areas
Misginaw Tamirat Arficho (Corresponding author)
Department of Agricultural Economics, Jimma University
POBOX 307, JIMMA, ETHIOPIA
Email misginaw.
tamirat@gmail.
com
The research is financed by Institute of Pastoral and Agro-pastoral Studies
Abstract
This study was undertaken in the pastoral areas of Hadiya zone of SNNPR, Ethiopia with the objective
of assessing the efficiency of cattle marketing.
The required data were generated from both primary
and secondary sources.
The marketing margin analysis manifested that, butchers incurred the highest
cost of 94 Birr per head followed by itinerant and amateur traders while rural collectors made the
largest profit (542 Birr per head) followed by butchers (506 Birr per head).
The producers share was
found largest in the direct sal
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