Caprine milk as a source of income for women instead of a taboo: a comparative analysis of the implication of women in the caprine and bovine value chains in Fatick, Senegal

Agricultural and Food Economics

Table 3 Characteristics (in percentage) of women interviewees involved in different activities of bovine and caprine value chains

			Bovine	Caprine
			n = 20 interviewees	n = 30 interviewees
Production¹ (% of women involved in each activity)		Maintenance of facilities	70	93
		Feeding	65	93
		Health	60	90
		Milking	55	77
		Reproduction	35	3
		Hiring of Worker	25	0
Processing₁ (% of women producing each type of product)		Curdled milk	100	77
		Soap	5	83
		Yoghurt	10	50
		Cheese	15	27
		Ice cream	10	17
		Oil and butter	10	0
Marketing¹ (% of women selling each type of product)		Fresh milk	80	40
		Curdled milk	95	70
		Soap	5	83
		Yoghurt	15	27
		Cheese	5	50
		Ice cream	10	17
		Oil and butter	10	0
Share of income from sales		Less than 25%	35	38
		25%	10	17
		Between 25 and 50%	10	3
		50%	5	21
		Between 50 and 75%	0	7
		More than 75%	40	14
Other incomes¹ (% of women involved in other activities)		No other source of income	35	3
		Agriculture + Fattening	8	14
		Agriculture + Fattening + Marketing	46	64
		Marketing	31	7
		Agriculture + Marketing	8	7
		Fattening + Marketing	8	7
Constraints noted by women¹ (% of women)	Production	Lack of land (fodder crops)	80	67
		Inequality between men and women (state subsidy)	60	23
		Difficulty of the work	60	53
		Time management	40	60
		Difficulty in combining livestock and agriculture	40	43
		Lack of pens	30	63
	Processing	Lack of equipment	5	90
		Lack of infrastructure	5	67
		Lack of mastery of techniques	0	50
		Insufficiency/Quality of milk	15	40
		Lack of training on innovations	25	30
		Lack of electricity	0	10
		Conservation	55	0
	Marketing	Means of transport	30	63
		Lack of road track	20	60
		Lack of market in the village	25	53
		Isolation of the village	20	40
		Price of raw milk (Kirène)	45	0

¹ The categories are not exclusive: women respondents could indicate several answers