Improving livelihoods of smallholder farmers through region specific strategies: a case study of South African sheep production

Nyam, Yong Sebastian; Matthews, Nicolette; Bahta, Yonas T.

doi:10.1080/03031853.2019.1639205

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“…A study by Otieno et al (2012) found that smallholder cattle farmers in Kenya spent the equivalent of R5 633.93 per year. Nyam et al (2019) found that an increase in veterinary cost would reduce the technical efficiency of sheep farmers in Thaba Nchu and Botshabelo.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The value of sheep output measured in this study is in Rand value and shows the levels of profit efficiency of sheep production for the 2016/2017 production year. It shows that even though the smallholder farmers produce at small scale, they equally make profits though not enough to sustain their livelihoods in some instances (Nyam et al 2019). Profit efficiency is defined in this study as revenue gained from sheep production, taking farm-specific prices and associated costs into account.…”

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“…This shows that commercial farmers who produce and supply the local and international markets dominate the sheep industry in South Africa. Even though the market is dominated by commercial farmers, South Africa remains a net importer of sheep and sheep products (Nyam et al 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Previous studies have examined livestock production and market participation of smallholder livestock farmers in South Africa (Rios et al 2009;Mafukata 2015;Ndoro et al 2014;Ndoro et al 2015;Ngarava et al 2019;Molotsi et al 2017;Bahta and Bauer 2012), market factors inhibiting the competitiveness or profitability of smallholder farmers (Mpandeli and Maponya, 2014;Dlamini, 2014), technical efficiency and technological gap in sheep production (Nyam et al 2019).…”

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“…The limitations of these studies lie in that they did not account for factors influencing the profitability and profit efficiency of smallholder farmers, and only assumed technical efficiency in terms of input use and production technology. Furthermore, Nyam at al. (2019) only focused on the technical efficiency and technological gap that exist between smallholder sheep farmers and failed to estimate the economic and allocative efficiencies of the smallholder farmers.…”

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Analysis of profit efficiency among smallholder sheep farmers of N8 development corridor Free State, South Africa

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3The livestock sector is the largest agricultural-sub sector in South Africa contributing 4 approximately 30% to the agricultural output. The aim of this research is to measure the profit 5 efficiency of smallholder sheep farmers and to identify the factors affecting profit efficiency of the 6 farmer, in order to propose better strategies for sustainable livestock production among 7 smallholder farmers in the Free State. A stochastic profit frontier approach was used to evaluate 8 the profitability and efficiency of 217 smallholders in the N8 development corridor Free State, 9 South Africa. The results found that the farmers are not efficiency and have great capacity to 10 improve profitability in sheep production. The result showed that Profit efficiencies of the farmers 11 varied between 15.5% and 80.4% with a mean of 65.1% implying that an estimated 34.9% of the 12 profit is lost due to a combination of economic and allocative inefficiencies in sheep production. 13 The study found that profit efficiency is positively influenced by level of education and household 14 size (members below 18 years old) while gender and sheep loss increase profit inefficiency. Profit 15 efficiency of the farmers can be significantly increased through effective education and training of 16 farmers. 17 18

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