EIAR experience on potential interventions in livestock value chains development

EIAR Experience on Potential Interventions in

Livestock Value Chains Development

Getnet Assefa

LIVES Commodity Value Chain Development Inception Workshop

Addis Ababa, 21–24 January 2013

General

• EIAR’s mission is to conduct research that will

provide market competitive agricultural

technologies that will contribute to increased

agricultural productivity and sustainable food

security, economic development, and

conservation of the integrity of natural resources

and the environment.

• This presentation highlights the general efforts

done in technology generation of livestock value

chains, demonstration and related activities by

EIAR

Livestock commodities

- Cattle - Dairy and Beef

- Sheep and Goats

- Camel

- Fishery

- Aquaculture

Ruminants

Poultry

- Layers

- Broilers

- Dual Purpose Fishery

Livestock commodities

- Honey

- Beeswax

- Silk

Apiculture

Feed Resources

- Roughages

- Concentrates

- Others Sericulture

Rangelands

National Coordination

• Partners

– Regional Agricultural Research Institutes

– Bureau of Agricultures/ Livestock Agencies

– Higher Learning Institutes

– Ministry of Agriculture

– Different local and international organizations like ILRI, ASRECA, etc

Genetic improvement

Dairy cattle

Sheep and goats

Poultry, Silk worms

Nutrition & feeding

systems

Animal health Epidemiology, control

and prevention

Processing Dairy, meat, honey,

fish, feed

Feed

production and

management

Range

management

Draught power

Newly started

Biotechnology

and food science

Socio-economics

Extension,

Gender, marketing

Climate change

Livestock

Research

Thematic areas

Achievements

Dairy cattle

Improved crossbred dairy cattle

(Frisian & Jersey)

- F1 (50%)

- High grade (>75%)

With different production

packages

Dairy

- Feeding strategies to the different areas and feed resource types

- Forage production

- Milk processing

- Animal health

- Cooperatives and marketing

Beef cattle

Feeding management

practice with available

feed resources in the

different agro ecologies

Characterization of

selected breeds in

Ethiopia for beef

production

Animal power

• Evaluation on the use of

male indigenous and

crossbred cattle for draft

power

• Use of crossbred cows as

dual purpose animals: as

dairy and traction

• Evaluation of different,

improved power farm

implements and harness

used in animal traction

– Improved management of local breeds

– Cross breeding

• Dorper sheep

• Bore Goats

– Feeding packages for the different production systems using locally available feed resources

Small Ruminants

– Adaptation of commercial

breeds (Many breeds recommended

for the different systems)

• Broilers

• Layers

• Dual purpose

– Health management

recommendations

– Feeding system

recommendations with

locally available resources

– General management practice

Poultry

– Most of the water bodies

are characterized

– Recommended aquaculture

practice are available

– Fingerling production

systems available

– Recommended fishing gear

technologies

– Preservation practice

Fishery

– Different types of beehives

are developed

– Bee disease and pest

control mechanisms are

established

– Bee forage

– Small and large scale

honey and beeswax

processing technologies

Apiculture

– Suitable silkworm

races identified

– Silk worm forages

varieties and

management production

practice established

– Cocoon production

management production

available

Sericulture

• Forage crops suitable for different agro-ecologies and production strategies are identified

– 11 registered forage species/varieties – More than 25 other recommended species – Various agronomic, conservation and utilization

technologies

• Recommended practice in the Improvement and utilization of crop residues and agro-industrial by products are established

• Demonstrations are going on in the different agro-ecologies and production systems

Feed production & management

– Socio economic information in the

different target areas

– Marketing studies

– Various information to support policy

decisions

Socio-economics and extension

• EIAR has a team that works on climate

It mainstream climate in most of research activities including livestock research to generate climate resilient technologies suitable to our farming systems

Climate change

– Training

– Technology

demonstration (poultry,

dairy)

- Women’s cooperatives

- etc

Gender

– Technologies for demonstration

• Dairy cattle (AI)

• Poultry, Sheep and goats

• Fish, Forage seeds

• Various implements, etc

– For multipliers

– Very limited progress for various

reasons

Technology multiplication

– Very huge demand

– Successful experience

in different parts of

Ethiopia in most of the

commodities

– Dairy

– Poultry

– Fish

– Small ruminantes

– Feed technologies

Pre-scaling up demonstration

• Currently

– Dairy - Demonstration is planned through AI

– Poultry – Extremely huge demand

• Construction of multiplication facilities

• National scaling up plans for semi-intensive commercial poultry production is designed

– Fishery and aquaculture

• High demand (Integrated systems)

• Fingerling production capacity construction almost to be finalized

– Forage seeds - significant high amount of forage seeds of different forage crops are under multiplication

Pre-scaling up demonstration

Newly started

• Animal biotechnology

– Reproductive biotechnology

– Animal health

– Animal nutrition

• Food science

Major Challenges

• Inadequate capacity

– Physical capacity

– Human power capacity

• Very limited technology multiplication for pre scaling up demonstration

• Socioeconomic constraints

• Technical constraints