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Book Synopsis MANAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL RUMINANTS PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN NIGERIA by : Boladale Abiola Adebowale
Download or read book MANAGING TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL RUMINANTS PRODUCTION SYSTEMS IN NIGERIA written by Boladale Abiola Adebowale and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research examined the existing traditional livestock system as well as modern livestock system. It centers on assessment of traditional small ruminant within the domestic environment of an under-developed economy. The study focuses on the small ruminants, because the large ruminants have been a subject of intense empirical policy studies whilst little data exist on Africa s small ruminants. In spite of this fact, Africa s supply of protein from large ruminants remains inadequate making it imperative for research at the scientific and policy levels to examine alternatives. The overarching reason for considering small ruminants is their considerable adaptability to the harsh tropical environment, and the relatively cheaper cost of production compared to large ruminants. This study covers the South western and Northern parts of Nigeria and we found that in the southwest, inspite of considerable market demand for small ruminants, farmers breed them largely for home consumption, and out of long held traditional beliefs rather than income generation. In the North, they breed livestock largely for commercial purpose thereby deriving a larger proportion of their income from it.
Book Synopsis Small Ruminant Production and the Small Ruminant Genetic Resource in Tropical Africa by : R. T. Wilson
Download or read book Small Ruminant Production and the Small Ruminant Genetic Resource in Tropical Africa written by R. T. Wilson and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1991 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Small Ruminants in the Smallholder Production System in Southern Benin by : Gbènakpon Luc Hippolyte Dossa
Download or read book Small Ruminants in the Smallholder Production System in Southern Benin written by Gbènakpon Luc Hippolyte Dossa and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2007 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Small Ruminant Production Techniques by : H. Ibrahim
Download or read book Small Ruminant Production Techniques written by H. Ibrahim and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference Publisher :ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) ISBN 13 :9789290532583 Total Pages :592 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (325 download)
Book Synopsis Small Ruminant Research and Development in Africa by : African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference
Download or read book Small Ruminant Research and Development in Africa written by African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Productive and Economic Performance of Small Ruminants in Two Production Systems of the Highlands of Ethiopia by : Getahun Legesse
Download or read book Productive and Economic Performance of Small Ruminants in Two Production Systems of the Highlands of Ethiopia written by Getahun Legesse and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small ruminants are an important component of the Ethiopian mixed-farming systems. A key feature of small ruminants in these systems is that they fulfil multiple roles, ranging from socio-cultural purposes to providing meat, milk and manure. Agro-climatic and socio-economic factors trigger off variations in small ruminant production systems; underestimating this diversity in sheep and goats management may hamper the identification of constraints and opportunities for sustainable development of the systems. Likewise, attempts to improve performance under the prevailing conditions must take into consideration their specific purpose in the production system and their performance potential under varying management levels. The assessment of the current productive and economic performance of small ruminants also provides baseline data against which the success of future interventions can be measured. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the productivity and the household income contribution of small-ruminant enterprises of smallholder farmers in two mixed-farming systems of southern Ethiopia (viz. Adilo and Kofele) and to identify possible options for future improvements. Adilo represents the most densely populated areas in Ethiopia while Kofele represents an area of the southern highlands populated at medium level. Kofele is an area with a relatively cool climate, food sufficiency and fairly high agricultural potential in terms of soil fertility and land availability and the farmers in the area keep more livestock than their counterparts in Adilo. Adilo, on the other hand, is an area characterized by land scarcity and food insufficiency. Both areas are prominent suppliers of small ruminants to the neighbouring big cities and Addis Ababa. The study was carried out following a step-wise approach. Understanding the existing situation of small ruminant production was dealt with a diagnostic survey (399 households) and group discussions in respective sites between April and July 2004. Detailed information on growth, reproductive and economic parameters was gathered through a one year long flock and household monitoring (155 households) between September 2005 and August 2006. Semi-structured surveys and feedback workshops were also conducted with the participating households to elicit information on income-expense details and the adoption likelihood of small ruminant technologies in the study area. The statistical data analyses were performed applying descriptive statistics, general linear models, and logistic regression using Statistical Analysis System (SAS) software. Results of the diagnostic survey revealed that small ruminants fulfil several roles in the study area. However, the principal purpose of keeping sheep and goats was to generate cash income. Sheep milk consumption was widespread around Kofele unlike most agricultural systems in the country. Nearly all respondents in Adilo reported fattening their sheep before sale, while such a practice was uncommon in Kofele. Informal insurance schemes were evolving among the sheep keepers in Adilo. The common problem identified from both individual interviews and group discussions was feed shortage. Small ruminant disease (e.g. fasciolosis) was also the major constraint in Kofele, where marshy areas are increasingly assigned for grazing in the rainy season as more suitable lands are gradually allocated to cropping activities The average litter size at birth of sheep covered in this study was 1.3, the rate of single and twin births being 74% and 25%, respectively. Significantly higher litter size was obtained in the Adilo small ruminant system that implies better reproductive rate thereby higher meat output from the area. There is evidence, from the reproductive and growth performance that considerable stress occurs in small ruminants during the dry season due to inadequate nutrition. The lambs in Kofele exhibited significantly higher birth and weaning weights while the average pre-weaning daily gains were about 100g in both sites. High young mortalities of about 20% in lambs and kids can be considered as a majorconstraint. The flock structure of small ruminants in the present study showed that male offtake at a young age (around one-year) was high. The overall offtake rate, which was calculated for the one-year study period as sales plus slaughters plus animals gifted out permanently as a proportion of total flock size at the start of the study, was more than 90% due mainly to sales; the value obtained is among the highest reported offtake rates in sub-Saharan Africa. The flock structure and the offtake suggest that the management objective of sheep owners’ is mainly meat production for the market. The sale of small ruminants contributed to 39% and 23% of total farm cash income among small ruminant keepers in Adilo and Kofele, respectively. Though the two research sites are practicing rainfed mixed-farming, are known for their small ruminant markets and are only a hundred kilometres apart, the existing practices that may be an entry point for further intervention and strengthening are different. Farmers in each site initiated new practices like fattening and managing a household ‘veterinary kit’. In Adilo, logistic regression analysis revealed that the utilization of commercial concentrate decreased with increasing age and farm size only up to a point. The likelihood of adoption increased with livestock holding up to reaching a maximum and then declines as holding increases further. Female farmers, literate household heads, and households with high family size were more likely to adopt the utilization of commercial concentrates. On the other hand, farm size and livestock holding significantly influenced the probability of adopting the practice of treating small ruminants via the household veterinary kits in Kofele area. Treating small ruminants in the household increased with farm size only up to the point at which it reaches a maximum. Those farmers who own a high number of livestock were significantly inclined to undertake the mentioned practice in the household. The growing demand for meat from small ruminants, the improving transportation infrastructure and the experience of farmers in small ruminant keeping are providing opportunities to enhance the contribution of the sector to smallholder farmers’ economy. The performance of the animals can be improved by reinforcing community animal health services and designing alternative feed resources like fodder trees in order to supplement breeding females and young stock at critical seasons of the year. With regard to feeding, attention should also be paid to the shortest feeding regimen before the holidays in which most sales are occurring particularly through strategic feeding and fattening. The current study has analysed two typical mixed-farming systems in southern Ethiopia, employing methods of questionnaires and a participatory approach directed towards capturing farm households and family decisions. Yet, the comparative evaluation of small ruminant systems remained the major focus of the work. The merging of these two approaches was performed in a systematic way, showing its limitations in only partial consideration of non-livestock activities. There also still remains the need to determine the performance of small ruminants under a purposefully stratified range of management systems and under-long term variations of environmental factors so that the out-scaling of results may have a broader inductive basis.
Book Synopsis Small Ruminant Production in the Humid Tropics by : International Livestock Research Institute
Download or read book Small Ruminant Production in the Humid Tropics written by International Livestock Research Institute and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign: Emerging Implications by : Ekekwe, Ndubuisi
Download or read book Disruptive Technologies, Innovation and Global Redesign: Emerging Implications written by Ekekwe, Ndubuisi and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book provides case studies as well as practical and theoretical chapters on the issues surrounding disruptive technologies, innovation, and global redesign"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis African Small Ruminant Research and Development by : R. T. Wilson
Download or read book African Small Ruminant Research and Development written by R. T. Wilson and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains 44 papers and 2 abstracts from a international conference on African small ruminants research and development. eleven papers and 1 abstract deal with the importance of small ruminant production systems and economics. Another 11 describe and analyse feed resources and feeding systems and there are 6 papers on reproductive problems and their solutions. Seven papers and 1 abstract review the prevalent health problems under various management systems and present the solutions to these production constraints. The last 9 papers deal with breeds, breeding systems and breed improvement.
Book Synopsis A.I.D. Research and Development Abstracts by :
Download or read book A.I.D. Research and Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Review on Challenges and Opportunities of Small Ruminant Production Under Mixed Farming System in Oromiya Regional State, Ethiopia by : Henok Mulatu
Download or read book Review on Challenges and Opportunities of Small Ruminant Production Under Mixed Farming System in Oromiya Regional State, Ethiopia written by Henok Mulatu and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review brief sheep and goat management practices, marketing systems, constraints and opportunities in the country to deliver summarized and synthesized information for the beneficiaries, users and help the researchers to develop well-organized strategies to improve their productivity in Ethiopia. In Ethiopia sheep and goats are mostly kept by smallholders and the rural poor, including women headed households. The trend in Ethiopian sheep and goat under mixed production systems are normally kept in small flocks and opportunities to increase their production a result of the increasing human population in most highland areas, the practice of restraining and housing these small ruminants is on the rise. Improvements to increase productivity and sustainable development of small ruminants in different farming systems of the country in innovative approach so as to meet the demands of the human population.Depending on this review it is imperative to practice modern production systems with better technology in urban and rural areas to improve the traditional system through feed supplementation and better health care.
Author :African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference Publisher :ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD) ISBN 13 :9789290532842 Total Pages :276 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (328 download)
Book Synopsis Small Ruminant Research and Development in Africa by : African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference
Download or read book Small Ruminant Research and Development in Africa written by African Small Ruminant Research Network. Conference and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sheep and Goats in Humid West Africa by : J. E. Sumberg
Download or read book Sheep and Goats in Humid West Africa written by J. E. Sumberg and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The productivity of small ruminants in the Maasai pastoral system Kajiado district, Kenya: An introduction to current research by : P. N. de Leeuw, C. P. Peacock
Download or read book The productivity of small ruminants in the Maasai pastoral system Kajiado district, Kenya: An introduction to current research written by P. N. de Leeuw, C. P. Peacock and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Small Ruminant Production Systems in South Western Ethiopia by : Samuel Gebrekiristos
Download or read book Small Ruminant Production Systems in South Western Ethiopia written by Samuel Gebrekiristos and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rearing of small ruminants in Ethiopia is mostly of extensive type where both sheep and goats freely graze and browse in communal and private lands. Although, the country possess high number of animals, the net income obtained is still low. Farmers around the rural areas have of less awareness on treating their animals in veterinary clinics when certain sporadic and chronic diseases emerged. In the rural areas of Jimma, small ruminants seems to grow on the merit of nature where no any supplementary food is prepared. Some fattening practices started by merchants to sell for restaurants, bars and the people with higher demand in cultural festivity. This very book tries to investigate management system in terms of housing, feeds and feeding, watering, disease and disease control of small ruminants both in the town of Jimma and vicinity areas.
Author :Timothy P. Robinson Publisher :Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) ISBN 13 :9789251070338 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (73 download)
Book Synopsis Global Livestock Production Systems by : Timothy P. Robinson
Download or read book Global Livestock Production Systems written by Timothy P. Robinson and published by Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed livestock sector policy development and priority setting is heavily dependent on a good understanding of livestock production systems. In a collaborative effort between the Food and Agriculture Organization and the International Livestock Research Institute, stock has been taken of where we have come from in agricultural systems classification and mapping; the current state of the art; and the directions in which research and data collection efforts need to take in the future. The book also addresses issues relating to the intensity and scale of production, moving from what is done to how it is done. The intensification of production is an area of particular importance, for it is in the intensive systems that changes are occurring most rapidly and where most information is needed on the implications that intensification of production may have for livelihoods, poverty alleviation, animal diseases, public health and environmental outcomes. A series of case studies is provided, linking livestock production systems to rural livelihoods and poverty and examples of the application of livestock production system maps are drawn from livestock production, now and in the future; livestock's impact on the global environment; animal and public health; and livestock and livelihoods. This book provides a formal reference to Version 5 of the global livestock production systems map, and to revised estimates of the numbers of rural poor livestock keepers, by country and livestock production system.
Download or read book Nutrient Requirements of Goats written by and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these popular handbooks contains comprehensive information on the nutritional needs of domestic animals and includes extensive tabular data. All are paperback and 8 1/2 x 11. Some books come with diskettes or Cds that allow users to predict nutrient requirements of specific animals under various conditions and at various life stages.