| dc.description.abstract | This research paper sought to investigate the determinants of income from pig farming. A primary
source of data was used and it involved administering of questionnaires to pig farmers in
Lwebitakuli Sub County in Sembabule district in the central region of Uganda. The Cochran
formula was used to determine the sample size of the 96 pig farmers that were to be interviewed
but the response rate was at 90.6% implying that 87 pig farmers complied with answering of the
questionnaires. The data from these pig farmers was entered into excel and then exported to
STATA 15 where analysis was done at three levels i.e. Univariate, bivariate and multivariate
analyses
Under Univariate analysis, the study revealed that majority (50.57%) of the respondents (pig
farmers) kept local breeds of pigs followed by those who kept exotic breeds (33.33%) and the
rest (16.09%) kept cross breeds of pigs. Majority (74.71%) of the respondents practice small scale
pig farming followed by those who did it on a medium scale (17.24%) and the rest (8.046%) did
pig farming on a large scale. The Study again showed that majority (60.92%) of the respondents
sold their pigs through middlemen and most of them (90.80%) sold them in form of live weight
instead of after value addition. It showed that the median of the expenditure on feeds of pigs by
respondents was Ugshs.150000 with a range from Ugshs.20000 to Ugsh.7500000 and the median
of the income earned from pig farming was Ugshs.1200000 with a range from Ugshs.150000 to
Ugsh. 16,100,000. Under bivariate analysis, it was found out that there exists a significant
relationship between the respondents’ type of breed kept and marketing mechanism used by the
respondents and the income earned by the respondents. In addition, there was a medium positive
relationship between most recent expenditure on feeds of pigs by the respondents and income
earned from pig farming by the respondents. Under multivariate analysis, the income earned from
pig farming by respondents was regressed against all the independent variables to form a linear
regression model with p-value=0.000 was significant (p<0.05) was significant implying the model
was a good fit and the R2 =0.651 indicated that 65.1% of the total variation in the dependent
variable (income earned from pig farming by respondents) was explained by the independent
variables. Also from this, it was significant that respondents who attained the tertiary level of
education earned 2281926 more units of income.
The key findings of this study show that the type of breed kept, the marketing mechanism used
and expenditure on feeds of pigs actually determine the income from the pig farming activity.
From this study, the research paper recommended that there should be an increase in the
sensitization of the pig farmers about the significance of rearing better breeds of pigs preferably
exotic breeds. Also, pig farmers are encouraged to form cooperative unions to increase their
bargaining power for better prices of their pigs on the market. Lastly pig farmers can adopt value
addition or market their pigs directly to urban markets to avoid exploitation by middlemen. | en_US |
