Value Chain Performance in the Niamey Dairy Basin (Niger)-Juniper Publishers
JUNIPER PUBLISHERS - OPEN ACCESS JOURNAL OF DAIRY & VETERINARY SCIENCES Abstract This study represents one of the chapters of the thesis work on the milk value chain in the Niamey dairy basin. 534 actors in the value chain were surveyed represent 40% of actors dealing with milk collection centers in the dairy basin. The data was analyzed with Excel 2013 and SPSS version 17 software. In the Niamey milk basin, producers are the actors with the highest marketing margins (11.2%). The collectors and distributors have a margin of 10% and 8% respectively. Processors are the most disadvantaged of all the other players with a marketing margin of 4.1%. Dairy production is performing well despite some imperfections and dysfunctions observed at the level of production and at the level of the rest of the value chain. For 1 FCFA spent in the production, a net gain of 1.44 FCFA is obtained. Keywords: Value Chain; Milk; Dairy Basin; Niamey; Stakeholders; Food security; Gr...