3.2 Research Design And Strategy Case Study

3.2. Research Design/ Strategy
The strategy was included desk research to come up research problem, objectives and research questions, field work for data collection, data entry, processing and compilation of the quantitative data and for the qualitative the collected from the focus group discussions, interviews and observations was processed into transcripts, analysis of results, discussion of the research findings and finally conclusion and recommendations. The questionnaires and checklist developed during desk research was pre-tested prior to field administration. Views on how to improve them would be sought from fellow students, lecturers and other relevant field staff. This had helped verify their relevance and applicability in relation
He was also assisting me in introducing me to the community and the objective of this research to the members of the self-help institution and government line offices and sometimes translating into local language and in explaining that the finding of this research work is very important for smallholder dairy farmers to strengthen their position in milk value chain in local language. The researcher was thoroughly checked during each evening to reflects on daily works, made a review of the transcript for the qualitative data, data entry for the quantitative part and evaluated the work, in order to identify critical gaps that needed to be filled as part of data collation and quality check and a way of ensuring the TOR/required data collected in order to
Before conducting the interview with model dairy farmer a discussion was made during the FGD if there are any dairy farmers who can be model or average farmer that potential and capacity for representing other in area, then representative of the dairy farmers, representative of the government offices and institution had agreed that there is only one dairy farmer (Teshome Mengistu) who can be the representative of the smallholder dairy farmers in the area. Following this, an interview was conducted in order to collect the required information with the help of research field interview guideline