Table 1.
Agro-ecology, elevation, and distance to major marketplaces of target sample kebelles by district.
Table 2.
Characteristics of dairy production systems.
Fig 1.
Canonical correspondence analysis map of dairy production systems.
Fig 2.
Distribution of Dairy production system types in agro ecology (A) and study Districts (B).
Table 3.
Index value for major feed resources for dairy cattle (mean±SE).
Table 4.
Dairy cattle feed types available in each dairy production systems.
Table 5.
Feeding methods for local and crossbreds in the study areas (frequency/ %).
Table 6.
Breed types owned and breeding methods used by smallholder farmers.
Table 7.
Dairy cattle ownership for the last five year (2017-2021GC) and milk production across dairy production system (Mean±SE).
Table 8.
Veterinary health services across dairy production system.
Fig 3.
Manure management among smallholder farmers in the study areas.
Fig 4.
Cash Crop Based (A), Enset Based (B), Cereal Based (C) and Diversified Crop Based (D) DPSs.
Table 9.
Dairy cattle housing across dairy production system.