Survey on Socio-economic Values and Challenges of Camel Production

A cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted in three districts; Gode, Ber¿ano and Adadle of the Somali regional state from November, 2017 to April, 2018. The objectives of this study was to identify and have a background data on the social and economic values associated with the production, marketing, and consumption of camel and its products, to investigate on the cultural and environmental factors influencing the production, marketing, and consumption of camels and its products, To investigate on the challenges and opportunities that women, production and marketing of camel milk and meat are facing along the chain of production to end users. Semi-structured pre-tested questionnaires supplemented with a face-to-face group and/or single interviews were administered to a total of 360 household respondents from the three study districts. Accordingly, a total of 120 respondents were sampled from each of the study districts. Present study has shown that more than 92.0% majority of the households interviewed from either of the study districts were headed by males.