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Business Model: Supply of Livestock Inputs - Shaya Women's Sheep Fattening Youth Cooperative
In most countries, agricultural inputs are mainly sold by private sector businesses. Lack of livestock production inputs is a core problem particularly for livestock farmers in Ethiopia. This is due to the limited number ...
Strengthening Sheep fattening Communities of Practice in Ethiopia: Laying down revised strategies
ICARDA launched CoPs in 2019 with the intention to engage diverse stakeholders in livestock activities to sustainability support scaling of improved market-oriented sheep fattening (SF) practices and technologies in the ...
Barley Straw Use for Animal Feed and Soil Mulch in Ethiopian Highlands Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems
Barley straw serves as livestock feed and mulch for soil and water conservation in the mixed barley-livestock systems of the Ethiopian highlands. High demand for barley straw biomass in the system creates competition between ...
Effects of replacing Concentrate mix with different levels of Erythrina brucei (korch) leaves on Nutrient Intake, Digestibility and Body Weight Gain of Bonga Sheep fed a basal diet of Pennisetum glaucifolium (desho grass)
Shortage of feed-in quantity and quality are the major setback for livestock production and productivity in Ethiopia since there is a huge livestock population in the country. The unavailability and increment of commercial ...
Business Model: Production and Supply of Livestock Feeding Equipment_Buta Shuta Youth Cooperative, Ethiopia
Feed accounts for 75% of production costs for livestock farmers. A reduction in feed costs or feed productivity would significantly improve the financial situation of sheep farmers. Feed storage and feeding equipment are ...
Sheep Fattening is Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities for Youth, Including Young Women in Ethiopia
Traditionally, subsistence sheep fattening systems in rural Ethiopian Highlands offer limited income
potential for the farmers. Improved sheep fattening practices and technologies adopted
by 44 youth groups in 50 kebeles ...
Effect of Barley Variety on Feed Intake, Digestibility, Body Weight Gain and Carcass Characteristics in Fattening Lambs
Twenty lambs (18 ± 0.22 kg initial weight) were blocked by weight and individually assigned into pens to evaluate the effects of barley straw variety on digestibility, growth performance and carcass characteristics. The ...
Feasibility of heart girth models in estimating live weight of fat-long-tailed sheep
Fat deposition in the brisket of Ethiopian fat-long-tailed sheep may interfere with the correlation between heart girth (HG) and live weight (LW), bringing into question the accuracy of HG models for LW prediction that are ...
Eye-balling and heart girth models for live weight estimation of highly admixed Sudani shorthorn zebu cattle for precise production and veterinary services
Cattle production is a key pillar of food security in Africa. The majority of African cattle is highly admixed with
unknown breed composition. Accurate estimation of live weight (LW) of these cattle would improve the ...
SmaRT-Ethiopia Program: Update report on partners and actors landscaping and engagement
For the implementation of the Ethiopia priority country program on Small Ruminant Value Chain Transformation (SmaRT-Ethiopia), partners and actors at national and local level play a key role in research and development ...