Evaluation of hide and skin market chains in and around shashemene town
Journal Title: Scientia Agriculturae - Year 2015, Vol 10, Issue 3
Abstract
Hides and skins are the byproducts after animals are slaughtered for meat consumption or killed. They have wide importance specially used as a source foreign currency of the leather industry to Ethiopia. On the other hand, these products are not utilized efficiently due to production of low quality products and problem of the market. The objectives of the present study are to describe the structure of the existing market chains, assess the presence and reasons of hides and skins that do not enter the formal market and assess hide and skin market price and price determinants, assess hide and skin management practices before selling. A questionnaire survey was conducted in Shashemene woreda starting from December 2013 to March 2014. The production, methods of preservation, markets and quality deterioration factors on hides and skins were studied by interviewing 99 individual households from 8 kebeles of the woreda, 40 butchers, 7 middlemen, all the 3 collection centers and 2 key informants using random sampling. The data were entered to excel spread sheet and descriptive statistics were used for analysis. Most producers in the study area sell their hides and skins after slaughtering their animals. Results indicated that 82% of households sell their products to middlemen who inturn sell to collection centers, 18% of them sell directly to collection centers and the final destinations are tanneries who then supply the processed or semi processed products to domestic markets or export them. As obvious the marketing prices are increasing from producers to traders. Traders in the study area were not grading the products they simply collect by seeing only visible defects. Analysis on curing methods indicated that most middlemen and all collection centers preserve hides and skins until sale. But most traders complained that they got their products rejected one or another time and or price lowered. The major reasons were knife cuts, foul odor of the products, small size and discoloration of hides and skins due to improper preservation. Therefore, producers in the study area should get training on factors causing low quality products on the live animal and also after slaughter and traders should be trained about proper preservation methods and grading of products.
Authors and Affiliations
Juhar Tesfaye, Teshager Dubie, Getachew Terefe
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- DOI 10.15192/PSCP.SA.2015.10.3.119126
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