Economic performance of exotic dairy cattle under smallholder conditions in the marginal zones of Kenya using three analytical approaches

Mutuku Muendo Kavoi, Dana Hoag () and James Pritchett ()

Agrekon, 2010, vol. 49, issue 01, 24

Abstract: Smallholder exotic dairy cattle have been adopted in the dry marginal zones of Kenya from the high potential areas over the last two decades contrary to the opinion of experts. The objective of this study therefore was to evaluate the economic performance of this dairy establishment in the marginal zones. Three approaches were used for the evaluation: the stochastic cost frontier to determine inefficiencies and the causative institutional and socio-economic factors; cost-factor demand systems; and the supply response analyses to determine the elasticity estimates of policy variables. The results from these approaches are supplementary and seem to support the need for government interventions in institutional and socio-economic factors that have a high public good component in order to expand dairy establishment in the marginal zones.

Keywords: Institutional; and; Behavioral; Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.61997

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