Entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities of small scale dairy farms productivity in selective areas of Aysaeta City Edris Ali Hussien1, Doelamo Zewdie Kifle2 1Vice President for Academic Affairs and Lecturer in Department of Management, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia 2Lecturer in the Department of Management, Samara University, Samara, Ethiopia Online published on 5 December, 2019. Abstract This study was across-sectional with the specific objectives of determining current entrepreneurial challenges and opportunities of small scale dairy farms productivity and gross margin analysis as well as constraints of crossbred cows. Emphasis in development policy has usually been placed on increasing production to serve as a base for small dairy farms development. So in the absence of well-functioning markets, agricultural production may experience several draw backs. This study attempted to analyze the dairy productivity in Aysaeta, of Afar Regional State, Ethiopia. A total of thirty seven small scale dairy farms were selected for the study. Data were collected through structured questionnaires and scheduled interview. In this study small scale dairy farms and gross margin of milk yield was evaluated using different statistical approaches like mean, standard deviation, frequency, percentage, and market margin. In addition to this, the econometric model called multi-linear regression was employed in order to identify factors affecting milk yield. The results obtained from this analysis indicated that disease of the dairy farms cows, price of milk in 2017 G.C and the volume of milk produced were found to be the most vital positively significant variables influencing marketable supply of milk in the districts. The main constraint or problems of small scale dairy farms was high costs of feeding, landless, Storage of feed, disease occurrence as well as lack of adequate knowledge and skill about feeding. Based on the study marks (results), it is recommended that interventions are demanded to elevate productivity of milk yield. Top Keywords Entrepreneurship, Dairy farming, Productivity, Small-scale. Top |