Adoption of dairy feed technology bundles improves smallholder dairy farmers' milk production
Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies
ISSN: 2044-0839
Article publication date: 29 June 2023
Abstract
Purpose
This study examined the effects of adopting dairy feed technology bundles on the milk production of smallholder dairy farmers.
Design/methodology/approach
The study was based on Multinomial Endogenous Switching Regression (MESR) to estimate the effects of the adoption of three feed technology bundles on milk production using data collected from 518 dairy farm households in West Java, Indonesia.
Findings
The findings indicated that adopting technology bundles had positive and robust effects on milk production, with gradual positive effects between non-adoption and the adoption of different bundles of technologies.
Research limitations/implications
This study focused on the association between the adoption of feed technology bundles and milk production. However, further analysis of the causal links between the adoption of feed technologies and milk production as well as the inclusion of other outcomes in the analysis, such as production costs and risk mitigation, are required.
Originality/value
Most of the literature on agricultural technology adoption focuses on the adoption of individual technologies, crop farming and conservation practices. Therefore, this study examined the effects of the adoption of dairy feed technology bundles.
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Acknowledgements
The authors would like to thank the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) for funding this research under the project “AGB/2012/099: Improving Milk Supply, Competitiveness and Livelihoods of Smallholder Dairy Chains in Indonesia”. The authors would also like to thank The Bogor Agricultural University (IPB University), The Indonesian Centre of Agricultural Socio-Economic Policy Studies (ICASEPS), the Indonesian Centre for Animal Research and Development (ICARD), and Australasian Dairy Consultants Pty Ltd for their contributions during the design and data collection stages of this research. The authors also would like to thank Dr Risti Permani for her contribution in the early phase of the project development and Mr Jack Hetherington for his role as project coordinator. The authors gratefully acknowledged Associate Professor Patrick O'Connor and Dr Di Zeng for their valuable comments on this manuscript. Finally, the authors would like to thank all enumerators who collected the data and the Indonesian dairy cooperatives and dairy farmers who participated in this study and made it possible.
Citation
Akzar, R., Peralta, A. and Umberger, W. (2023), "Adoption of dairy feed technology bundles improves smallholder dairy farmers' milk production", Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JADEE-12-2022-0267
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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