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Introduction:
Like other rural services such as extension, in recent years veterinary services in developing countries have undergone major reforms including decentralization and privatization (Sen and Chander 2003). These reforms of public agricultural services were the direct result of structural adjustment policies (SAPs) promoted by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank over the past two decades (World Bank 2009). The SAPs were based on the argument that many developing countries had failed to create incentive systems for the efficient delivery of goods and services in the agricultural sector, and that market mechanisms would do a better job (Smith 2001). Hence, the SAPs sought to reduce the role of the public sector in the provision of goods and services and enhance that of the private sector (Woodford 2004). As a result, services were decentralized and/or privatized.
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