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A study on the feeding behaviour of forty adult female goats at Beke in the southern rangelands of Ethiopia carried to determine the type of vegetation consumed and the amount of time spent on different activities like walking, feeding, ruminating & idling.


Dessalegne, B.[Feeding behaviour of goats in the southern rangelands of Ethiopia]Feeding behaviour of goats in the southern rangelands of Ethiopia

Lowlands in Ethiopia cover about 60 percent of the total land area, of which about 60 percent is arid. Land use in the lowlands is dominated by pastoralist and agropastoralist production systems. Livestock production constitutes the most important component of the system and rangeland is the majo...


Berhe, KahsayGebremedhin, BerhanuEhui, Simeon K.Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.[Development needs of pastoral and agropastoral production systems in Ethiopia: Lessons learnt from ILRI's research in some pastoral areas of Ethiopia]Development needs of pastoral and agropastoral production systems in Ethiopia: Lessons learnt from ILRI's research in some pastoral areas of Ethiopia

Mixed crop-lvestock production system is the major agricultural production system in Ethiopia with a wide array of Development challenges and opportunities. One of the key challenge in improving the agricultural productivity of the system is feed scarcity and undernutrition. The major basal feed ...


Bediye, S.Assefa, G.Tedla, A.Fekadu, D.[Present status and future direction in feed resources and nutrition research targeted for wheat based crop-livestock production system in Ethiopia]Present status and future direction in feed resources and nutrition research targeted for wheat based crop-livestock production system in Ethiopia

The first part of the paper describes the predominant livestock production systems in sub-Saharan Africa. The second part discusses free resources available to the smallholders, feed resources available to the estate/large scale farmers, production levels of crop residues and agro-industrial by-p...


Sibanda, S.Said, A.N.[The role of crop residues and agro-industrial by-products as animal feed resources in sub-Saharan Africa]The role of crop residues and agro-industrial by-products as animal feed resources in sub-Saharan Africa

This document starts by describing the five main agroecological zones of sub-Saharan Africa, viz, arid, semi-arid, subhumid, humid, and highland, and summarising population and agricultural production. Then it goes to the main topics that includes inter cropping systems; criteria for evaluating t...


Saka, A.R.Haque, I.Lupwayi, N.Z.El-Wakeel, A.[Forage legumes in crop-livestock systems of sub-Saharan Africa]Forage legumes in crop-livestock systems of sub-Saharan Africa

This document first describes the main agroecological zone found in sub-Saharan Africa and the environmental constraints to agricultural production inherent in these zones. This is followed by a description of the main agricultural production systems and land use practices. Factors that have cont...


Ehui, Simeon K.Williams, Timothy O.Swallow, B.M.[Economic factors and policies encouraging environmentally detrimental land use practices in sub-Saharan Africa]Economic factors and policies encouraging environmentally detrimental land use practices in sub-Saharan Africa

This paper assesses the development of the dairy sector in Ethiopia over the past fifty years. In particular, it presents an overview of the dairy sector in Ethiopia. It also identifies key phases in the development of the dairy sector in Ethiopia and examines the trends in production and consump...


Ahmed, M.M.Ehui, Simeon K.Assefa, Y.[Dairy development in Ethiopia]Dairy development in Ethiopia

Data on accumulated life performance of crosses of Ayrshire (A), Brown Swiss (B), Friesian (F) and Sahiwal (S) cattle collected over a 21- years period from a dairy ranch in the lowland tropics of Kenya were analysed to estimate additive and non-additive genetic effects of economic traits. These ...


Kahi, A.K.Thorpe, W.R.Nitter, G.Arendonk, Johan A.M. vanGall, C.F.[Economic evaluation of crossbreeding for dairy production in a pasture based production system in Kenya]Economic evaluation of crossbreeding for dairy production in a pasture based production system in Kenya

A cross-sectional survey was carried out in Ghinchi farming community, central Ethiopia during October and November 2001 to assess the level of association between children's nutritional status, families' socio-economic gradient, and degree of maternal attention and cognitive development. Ninety ...


Ketema, L.Abate, G.Jabbar, M.A.[Correlates of children's cognitive skills in an agrarian community with mixed crop-livestock production systems, Ghinchi, central Ethiopia]Correlates of children's cognitive skills in an agrarian community with mixed crop-livestock production systems, Ghinchi, central Ethiopia

Reports the response of two stylo cultivars, viz, stylosanthes hamata cv verano and stylosanthes guianensis cv cook to 'Kanwa' - a naturally occuring salt traditionally used as a cattle lick - but which shows the presence of various essential nutrients for plants. Discusses the implications to ag...


Mohamed-Saleem, M.A.Otsyina, R.M.[Effect of the naturally occurring salt 'Kanwa' as a fertilizer on the productivity of Stylosanthes in the subhumid zone of Nigeria]Effect of the naturally occurring salt 'Kanwa' as a fertilizer on the productivity of Stylosanthes in the subhumid zone of Nigeria

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