Study the Market Accessibility of Farmers Supported Through Grant by District Livestock Service Office in Lamjung

Abstract

District Livestock Service Office (DLSO), Lamjung has been providing the grants for raising life standard of the poor farmers, women, ethnic groups through quality production and their commercialization in different sectors via goat, dairy, pig and poultry on individual and group basis. A study was conducted among the farmers who were supported by DLSO to identify the marketing condition of their product, the problems they faced along with further expectation from DLSO in 18 VDCs and municipalities from February to June 2017. Data was collected by semi structured questionnaire among 142 respondents through purposive sampling and analysis was done by Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS 20.0) and Microsoft Excel. The study revealed that 79% of farmers had good access of market and they could sell meat (70%) easily followed by milk product. Similarly, maximum farmers (76.8%) sold their product by themselves in which Janajati people govern 46.8%, with 30.3% Dalit and 22.9% Brahmin. The main problem seen in livestock rearing was transportation (50%) followed by price fluctuation (13.4%) and storage (8.5%). In cattle farming, the major problem was in storage (60%) of dairy products. Most of the farmers expect to access the safe transportation (59.2%) for selling their products from DLSO. Poultry raising farmers (14.8%) had expected to promote village tourism while the pig rearing farmers (12%) wanted to have proper management of market within the district.