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Cactus holds promises as a tool to improve the productivity & sustainability of livestock based production systems under the climate change context
conference paper : Cactus holds promises as a tool to improve the productivity & sustainability of livestockbased production systems under the climate change context
Business plan and feasibility analysis of an On-farm solar powered milk cooling system
This chapter focuses primarily on the development of a business model for three livestock projects in the region of Sidi Bouzid in order to compare their financial profitability and feasibility. These models were developed ...
Identifying determinants, pressures and trade-offs of crop residue use in mixed smallholder farms in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
Crop residues (CR) have become a limited resource in mixed crop-livestock farms. As a result of the increasing demand and low availability of alternative resources, CR became an essential resource for household activities, ...
WOCAT SLM Technology: “Small-Scale Nutrient-Dense Pellet Production [Tunisia]”
Compressing agro-industrial by products into nutrient dense livestock feed pellets is a worthwhile innovation to compete with expensive and imported feed pellets. This innovation consists of a small-scale compressor ...
Factors Influencing Farmers’ Decisions to Adopt Improved Technologies in Semi-Arid Farming Systems: A case study of the barley variety Kounouz and feed blocks technology in Tunisia
Despite the high potential of innovative agricultural technologies to boost productivity, incomes, and food security for farmers, the adoption rate by smallholders in Tunisia’s livestock-barley systems is very slow. This ...
High- milking sheep have a lower ovulation rate and tend to yield fewer embryos in response to superovulation and intrauterine artificial insemination
Antagonistic relationship between milk yield and reproduction is reported in several
livestock species. This study aimed to investigate whether genetic merit for milk production
in dairy sheep affects responses to ...
Field testing of an innovative solar powered milk cooling solution for the higher efficiency of the dairy subsector
The Tunisian Government supported a strategy for the development of the dairy sub sector, because of its strategic importance for agricultural productivity and food security.
مطوية حول مشروع : المنظومة المندمجة للزراعات الكبرى وتربية الماشية تحت نظام الفلاحة الحافظة من أجل تحسين كفاءة إستخدام الماء وخصوبة التربة والإنتاجية في بلدان شمال إفريقيا وأمريكا اللاتينية
Leaflet on the description of CLCA-II project (in arabic).
يعد التدهور المستمر للأراضي الزراعية و ندرة المياه في تونس السبب الرئيسي وراء إنخفاض الإنتاجية و الذي ينعكس سلبا على ديمومة الإنتاج. تعتبر الزراعة الحافظة التي ...
Innovation platform, farmers’ organization and market to empower small farmers benefit from an autochthonous meat sheep value chain under low input production systems
Regional development in Tunisian livestock has been based mainly on segments rather than on an integrated system approach and a value chains concept. Even though efforts were made to improve production, livestock productivity ...
GnRH and prostaglandin-based synchronization protocols as alternatives to progestogen-based treatments in sheep
The study investigated, for cycling sheep, synchronizing protocols simultaneously to the standard “P” protocol using progestogens priming with intravaginal devices and gonadotropin. In November 2014, 90 adult Menz ewes ...