A survey on cattle management and utilization in Gambella region
2001
Mureja Shiberu(National AI Centre, Kaliti (Ethiopia))
Intervention on applying better ways of animal husbandry depends to a large extent on the production system of a particular locality. Where cattle owners are educated and are economically well, fast adoption of partinent technology including cattle feeding, care, housing and breeding will be possiblewhere cattle owners are settled but with lower educational and economic background, such a technology can be adopted slowlyhowever, in pastoral communities, more understanding of the system is required before any intervention is to take place. This paper briefly describes the cattle production system in Gambella region of Ethiopia. The traditional pastoral cattle management and their utilization, problems underlying the system, and options for improvement are outlined. Results of the survey are helpful in making short-term and long-term plans to increase the outputs from the high cattle population existing in the region.
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