Farmers’ willingness to pay (wtp) for local chicken ecotypes with enhanced newcastle disease resistance in Dodoma and Singida regions, Tanzania
| dc.contributor.author | Sese, Helen Samwel | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-02-13T06:19:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-02-13T06:19:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Indigenous poultry production plays an important role in meeting both social and economic obligations for most households in developing countries, especially for poor families. It is estimated that 2.5 million people keep indigenous chickens in Tanzania and their demand is increasing now and then. However, despite local chickens being important to most of the rural farmers and traders, still village kept chickens face challenges including Newcastle Disease (ND) which is a threat to most of them. Although much has been done to improve the genetics of indigenous poultry breeds with exotic resources through cross-breeding to fight against ND the program has not been successful. Therefore, the intentions of this study are: (i) to explore farmers’ awareness of Newcastle disease in the study areas; (ii) to assess preferred indigenous chicken ecotype traits with enhanced ND resistance by farmers’ and (iii) to determine factors influencing chicken traits preferred by farmers. Methodologically, preference for indigenous poultry enhanced ND resistance was elicited by using a choice experiment approach, applied across 302 randomly selected farmers in two regions in Tanzania of Dodoma and Singida, these study areas were selected due to their popularity in indigenous chicken keeping and they are also affected by ND. The primary data were collected in June and July 2022. Attribute prioritization for indigenous poultry enhanced ND resistance was elicited by using a pairwise comparison approach, applied across 173 farmers in two regions in Tanzania of Dodoma and Singida. The results indicate that vaccine-related traits like the number of times that birds are vaccinated and Newcastle disease resistance-related attributes such as enhanced ND resistance were highly weighted by village farmers with an average score of 47.75 and 44.25 respectively Descriptive results indicate that 97% of sampled farmers were aware of ND and only 3% were not. On the attribute preferences, most of the farmers were interested in chickens that were more disease resistant when not vaccinated; chickens that produces many eggs per clutch; had good mothering ability; hatching ability and good body weight. It can be concluded that farmers prefer those attributes including resistance to ND especially due to their free-range system of keeping chicken whereby chances of disease transmissions are high. In addition, farmers were willing to pay more for chicken traits with enhanced ND resistance without vaccination valued at TZS 86 732.2, good mothering ability fetch a price welfare of TZS 20 052.1, chicken body weight TZS 12 774.1, hatching ability TZS 11 549.4. They were also less willing to pay for traits enhanced ND resistance with vaccination, vaccination four times and twice a year and vaccine administration mode though eye drop. It is therefore recommended that all stakeholders participating in the indigenous chicken value chain should adopt this mechanism as an alternative way to improve village poultry productivity through targeting locally adaptable genetic resources that farmers value the most. This approach could potentially provide improved chickens that are readily acceptable by farmers and facilitates the conservation of locally adaptable chicken genetic resources. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/4932 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Sokoine University of Agriculture | en_US |
| dc.subject | Preferences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Chicken breeds | en_US |
| dc.subject | Poultry diseases | en_US |
| dc.subject | Tanzania | en_US |
| dc.title | Farmers’ willingness to pay (wtp) for local chicken ecotypes with enhanced newcastle disease resistance in Dodoma and Singida regions, Tanzania | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |