Agricultural Cooperatives and Acceptance of Technological Innovation

Abnousi, Vartan Kesiz; Karantemiris, Konstantinos; Doulis, Andreas G.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38766-2_1

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“…Likely the potential for further expansion to support additional sales will depend on multiple factors linked to economics and food security at the farmer level. However, with the hands on training and skills gained in husbandry, coop design, and building, future expansion within the co-operative is potentially more likely since co-operatives have been found to be more likely to adopt various innovations ( Abnousi et al, 2020 ). This improved access to innovation is likely due to access to social capital defined as the ability to develop and use various social networks and the resources associated with them ( Parthasarathy and Chopde, 2000 ).…”

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Assessing a pilot co-operative-based workshop-subsidy model toward improving small-scale chicken production in peri-urban Nepal

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Translational Animal Science

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Farmers in Nepal face many of the same global challenges associated with initiating and scaling poultry husbandry as many other developing countries. These include, access to innovative approaches in finance, credit, coop design, marketing and sales. As with most low-income countries, Nepalese poultry farmers also lack adequate training in poultry husbandry including biosecurity. In this paper, we describe a collaborative workshop-subsidy approach to addressing these challenges conducted by a partnership with the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, the College of Engineering, the School of Education and a farming co-operative based in the semi-rural area of Bhaktapur, Nepal. The program included two workshops covering aspects of poultry rearing including coop construction, chick rearing, biosecurity and husbandry. Both workshops were a combination of lectures and hands-on learning. Following completion of the workshops, each farmer received subsidized materials for coop construction and poultry rearing. The co-operative provided training facilities and a market for selling eggs. Despite an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), which affected the scale of program implementation, our results suggest that the workshop subsidy collaborative approach can be successful in reducing market entry barriers. Our 6-month post-workshop survey showed that two-thirds of the workshop participants ultimately built their own coop and raised chicks. Half of these participants reported market available egg production and a doubling of egg consumption at home.

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