I studied peri-urban dairy farmer's risk and risk management perceptions and their relation to different farm & farmer characteristics, in Karachi. And I found a number of unique characteristics of the dairy farming, peculiar to the locality and risk conditions.
A number of similar researches done in Ireland, Netherland, Turkey, Ethiopia and USA were found to be similar in some aspects but were different in many aspects, related to culture and risk environment. A number of different farm and farmer characteristics were also found to be positively and negatively affecting the perceptions.
What do you suggest generally to add into the research to expand it more to make a global novelness of the work for a PhD level research?
Find new topics in master's research could evolve into a PhD Research.
A challenge with studying perceptions is how the perceptions are influenced by the current market situation and its impact on sustainability of the dairy enterprise. One might gain insight by incorporating various price forecasts into the inquiry to see how perceptions change. Another approach would be to create 3 to 5 examples of model dairy farms that could exist in 5, 10, 20 or 40 years and then ask current farmers about where they would fit in the industry's future. It would be very interesting to forecast the dairy industry in your region 50 years from now by getting input from farmers, consumers, agricultural experts, bankers, dairy equipment experts and others that have. My recent efforts to look at the dairy industry in the USA in 2067 has led to some very interesting responses.
Now time to study dairy industry in Karachi. because dairy farms is only one part of it. Recently even in the developed countries this topic in the public agenda. In the USA, and EU the dairy sector are differently structured. However, the relationship between farmers and the processing sector is a question needs to be investigated.
@Jack Haiden Britt and Prof. Dr. Erkan Rehber ,
Thank you very much for your valuable response.
You can elaborate more in this important subject. You can study the value chain of dairy processing, and do the SWOT analysis to see and recommendations where you can improve this vital sector
First of all I agree with Sir Jack Haiden Britt and Prof. Dr. Erkan Rehber for expanding your areas and expertise in your research. As you have elaborated the work you have done in your Master's. You were talking about Dairy, Dairy farmer's risk and Risk Management. I suggest you to collect the possible Review of Literature on the said topic and go through all the research papers. you would have an Idea as what is the possibility of collecting the data. whether it is primary or secondary. The collected information may be about the farm characteristics such as herd size, farmland operated, business organization, and solvency position. Farm operator characteristics collected include age, education, and experience. Dairy farmer use of both milk and feed price risk management tools. In dairy and in agriculture generally, farm-level risk management tools are provided through both the private and the public sectors. By using these tools, dairy producers transfer risk to either the private sector or the government through programs that offer payments when milk prices decline.
Risk management tools can also be categorized as either short-run or long-run tools. You can also work on Value chain in Dairy industry, Processing, developing risk management tools and a lot more. I wish you a very bright future in your endeavor.
Reading more Literature on the previous topic, fill the gap and extending your work using mixed method approach for PhD level. I still need answers to the same question.
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