An Economic Assessment of Problems Associated with Small-Scale Farmers in the Dairy Sector of Pakistan (A Case Study of Punjab Province)

Ziad, Khwaja Tariq; Hayat, Umar; Muhammad, Muhammad; Bacha, Muhammad Suleman

doi:10.17582/journal.sja/2019/35.1.194.207

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“…The coordination among the actors in the supply chain is undeniably important in determining the performance of the supply chain, even if the actors have different objectives and interests (Ning et al , 2008). The coordination among actors in the dairy supply chain is also undeniably important in solving economic problems felt by small-scale farmers when dealing with the other actors (Ziad et al , 2019). For example, small-scale farmers in rural Punjab are not appropriately coordinated, thereby having low herd size and low bargaining power.…”

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Exploring the best policy scenario plan for the dairy supply chain: a DEMATEL approach

Susanty

Puspitasari

Prastawa

et al. 2020

JM2

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Purpose This research primarily aims to find and analyse the interaction among success factors for improving the performance of Indonesia’s dairy milk supply chain. Further, this research aims to formulate the right policies for improving the performance of the chain based on the success factor that belongs to cause groups. Design/methodology/approach The paper analyses 10 success factors for improving the performance of the Indonesian dairy supply chain with the decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method and analyses the Delphi method to formulate the right policies for improving performance. Findings There are four important influencing factors that directly impact the overall system, i.e. the number of dairy cattle import, national milk demand, the total number of dairy farmers and the number of dairy cattle ownership or herd size. Several alternative policies have been designed by several experts according to the influencing factors, i.e. the government assists in the procurement of imported cattle, provides financial assistance to farmers in the form of low-interest financing, improves the partnership system between farmers and dairy cooperatives, provides a reward system for the farmers and increases the level of formality of contract between the farmers and cooperatives. Research limitations/implications Interrelationships of each success factor and the most important influencing success factors could not be generally determined because it depends on the point of view of the experts. Future research can apply the success factors proposed by this research to the different dairy milk supply chain. Then, this research used only nine experts for formulating alternative policies. Future research may repeat this method using multiple experts to justify the validity of the research. Moreover, this research only explored 21 success factors of the increase in the performance of the Indonesian dairy supply chain. Future research should consider not only the supply side and number of dairy cattle but also several success factors from the causal relationship diagram in the broader dairy milk supply chain. Practical implications This research provides essential insights for policymakers, as they have to understand and evaluate the success factors before formulating several alternative policies. Social implications The research has revealed that the right alternative policies can be designed, as the causal factor has been known. Originality/value This research contributes to applying a combination of causal relationship diagram of System Dynamic and DEMATEL method as a qualitative and quantitative method in one integrated way through performance dairy supply chain analysis. As a result, this research draws a policy for the dairy supply chain referring to the success factor as a cause for the low performance of the Indonesian dairy supply chain.

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Exploring the best policy scenario plan for the dairy supply chain: a DEMATEL approach

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“…[12] indicated that farmers are faced with these challenges in the Meerut District namely; Lack of knowledge of modern technologies, agricultural market, infertility, and lack of veterinarians. [13] indicated that lack of coordination among small-scale dairy farmers and high costs of transactions, illiteracy and not being properly trained. These challenges when address will definitely assist not only the farmers but Government to generate more revenue, more enlightenment to all citizen is essential.…”

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Factors influencing milk production among dairy farmers in Southwest, Nigeria

Komolafe,

Ayandiji

2023

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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It is estimated that herds of cattle worth $18.2 million are reared and 82% of these animals are raised in an extensive system but Nigeria spent about $1.2 billion on milk importation, this indicates that the nation is still far from sustainability. The study examines the management practices of dairy farmers, sources of information, challenges, and factors that influence milk production in the study area. The study area covered Southwest, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 293 respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive and influential statistics. The result shows that the majority of the respondents were between 51-60 years, married, with no formal education, and had 21-30 years of farming experience. The majority produced an average of 11-20 liters of milk per day, radio was their main source of information, challenges faced by dairy farmers were the health of the animal, climate change, and breed of the animals. The factor influencing the farmers’ decision is the milking of animals (P>0.032). It is concluded that dairy production in the study area is not thriving as expected due to the above challenges. Therefore, dairy farmers need more orientation, government support, and training on the intensive management system.

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“…those in the small and mid-farm categories) are not literate in the documented management of livestock. Unfortunately, no traceable system can be identified, meaning that well in excess of 70% of the country's strategic livestock resources are essentially unknown to authorities (Chhachhar et al ., 2014; Ziad et al ., 2019). By contrast, corporate farms properly apply identifying technologies to their cattle, clearly one of the first major steps toward livestock traceability, and maintain lifecycle events (Marshall, 2014; Azeem, 2016).…”

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The need for national livestock surveillance in Pakistan

Shahzad

2022

Journal of Dairy Research

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Ranked amongst the top five milk-producing countries globally, the Pakistan dairy industry can help to overcome food shortage and hunger, alleviate poverty and positively impact economic growth. This influencing role could potentially be more significant while the COVID-19 pandemic severely affects humanity, challenges the economy and increases the risk of global food shortage. However, its large national population of dairy livestock contrasts with Pakistan's top-five ranking, indeed, four to five Pakistani cows produce milk equivalent to one dairy cow of countries with a well-developed dairy industry. Low milk yield per cow negatively impacts the national production and compromises the development of an efficient processing sector, such that consumers are very often forced to use adulterated milk sold by local ‘milkmen.’ As a consequence, while committed to alleviating global hunger, Pakistan imports in excess of half a million tons of milk and milk-based products annually. Many studies have identified unproductive, inefficient and imprecise management issues combined with poor genetics and imbalanced nutrition as the leading barriers to improvement in the Pakistani dairy livestock sector. At an individual level, lack of awareness, affordability issues, illiteracy and low ambition of a large percentile of dairy farmers creates additional significant barriers. To address low productivity and poor genetics, Pakistani corporate farms and wealthier individual farmers import genetically improved breeds to attain high milk yields. However, they are then faced with the challenge of managing such breeds to attain sustainable and persistent milk yields under Pakistani climatic conditions, often risking excessive culling even to the point of business liquidation. In developed dairy industries, automated sensor-based livestock management systems are now available to help monitor, compute, and optimize procedures in real-time and are proven to increase productivity and profitability. The term precision livestock farming (PLF) is used to describe systems that monitor individual animals or groups of animals to overcome management deficiencies and optimize productivity. My stance in this Opinion Paper is that adopting and utilizing such precision technologies may support Pakistan in raising its livestock resources toward greater productivity, thereby helping to overcome the global food shortage.

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An Economic Assessment of Problems Associated with Small-Scale Farmers in the Dairy Sector of Pakistan (A Case Study of Punjab Province)

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Exploring the best policy scenario plan for the dairy supply chain: a DEMATEL approach

Exploring the best policy scenario plan for the dairy supply chain: a DEMATEL approach

Factors influencing milk production among dairy farmers in Southwest, Nigeria

The need for national livestock surveillance in Pakistan

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