Author: Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Small Ruminant Breed Productivity Breed Productivity in Africa
Author: Publisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Sheep and Goats in Developing Countries
Author: Winrock International Livestock Research and Training CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The objectives of this study are to assess the role of small ruminants (sheep and goats) in the food production systems of developing countries, examine their advantages and disadvantages, analyze the constraints limiting their further contribution to the welfare of small farm/low income rural producers, prescribe measures for overcoming these constraints, and make recommendations related to potential donor involvement in support of the development of sheep and goat production. Small ruminants are viewed as an integral, but not dominant component of complex agricultural systems. Particular emphasis is placed on sheep and goats in mixed herds grazing dry rangelands and in small mixed farm systems in medium to high rainfall areas. An analysis of major constraints -- ecological, biological, policy, and socio-economic -- leads to recommendations on the need for a balanced production system approach for research, training and development programs, and for a combination of support activities such as herd health programs, and formulation of favorable credit, marketing and pricing policies for small ruminants and their products.
Small Ruminant Breed Productivity in Africa
Author: Ruth M. GatenbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Small Ruminant Production and the Small Ruminant Genetic Resource in Tropical Africa
Author: R. T. WilsonPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251029985
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Goat Science
Author: Sándor KukovicsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 1789232023
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Goat science covers quite a wide range and varieties of topics, from genetics and breeding, via nutrition, production systems, reproduction, milk and meat production, animal health and parasitism, etc., up to the effects of goat products on human health. In this book, several parts of them are presented within 18 different chapters. Molecular genetics and genetic improvement of goats are the new approaches of goat development. Several factors affect the passage rate of digesta in goats, but for diet properties, goats are similar to other ruminants. Iodine deficiency in goats could be dangerous. Assisted reproduction techniques have similar importance in goats like in other ruminants. Milk and meat production traits of goats are almost equally important and have significant positive impacts on human health. Many factors affect the health of goats, heat stress being of increasing importance. Production systems could modify all of the abovementioned characteristics of goats.
Sheep and Goat Production and Marketing Systems in Ethiopia
Author: Solomon GizawPublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 61
Book Description
Increasing Small Ruminant Productivity in Semi-Arid Areas
Author: E. F. ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9789400913189
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Small Ruminant Research and Development in Africa
Author: African Small Ruminant Research Network. ConferencePublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9789290532842
Category : Goats
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Sheep and Goats in Humid West Africa
Author: J. E. SumbergPublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9789290530589
Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
African Small Ruminant Research and Development
Author: R. T. WilsonPublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
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.