 Trader behaviour and transactions costs in live animal marketing in Ethiopian highland marketsMohammad Jabbar () and Samuel Benin No 182869, Research Reports from International Livestock Research Institute Abstract: A survey of 131 livestock traders in 38 markets in the highlands of Ethiopia provided information on trader behaviour and transactions costs. The livestock market is characterised by non-standardised products and lack of information in the public domain about supply, demand and prices. Consequently, livestock trading is largely a personalised business though intermediaries, especially brokers, are used for trading in distant markets. Most traders use own capital as access to credit, especially formal credit, is very limited. Estimated costs and margins of case transactions show low returns and losses on investment in some cases. Analysis of the structure of variable costs show that most are physical marketing costs, transactions costs are smaller as most exchanges are conducted in physical presence of the parties. Unstable price, multiple taxes, non-transparent tax system, limited access to credit and weak demand for the products traded are perceived as major problems of marketing. All the problems are amenable to public policy for improving the market environment and marketing efficiency. Keywords: Agribusiness; Agricultural and Food Policy; Industrial Organization; Livestock Production/Industries; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:ilrirr:182869 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Research Reports from International Livestock Research Institute Contact information at EDIRC. |
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