• Address feed shortage • Improve animal health (address input supply and production) • Implement breed improvement program including creating awareness of inbreeding and benefits of sharing bucks • Improve horizontal and vertical linkages • Address low Nimah quality Research and development ‘best bets’ Challenges in the value chain This document is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence May 2013 Small ruminant value chain development in Tanqua Abergelle, Ethiopia Our vision: “By 2020, we endeavor to see (safe) sustainable and market oriented Abergelle goat farming benefiting all actors and satisfying consumer requirements and contributing access to balanced nutrition for all ” • High incidence of infectious diseases (rabies, pasteurellosis, PPR, Anthrax) • Inadequate animal health services (supply of services, drugs and vet equipment, incapacity animal health workers, efficacy of drugs) • High incidence of abortion and high kid mortality • Feed shortage and inefficient feed utilization • Shortage of forage seeds and planting material • Low productivity of Abergelle goats • Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers and market information • Shortage of quality goats on the market Partners: BoARB, OARD, AbARC, ILRI, ICARDA, Abergelle abattoir, TARI, NVI, FAO Altitude 1590 Habitat lowland Distance from Addis 820 Production system Crop-livestock Human population 93,185 % of female headed household 20 Major products Meat, milk http://livestockfish.cgiar.org
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• Address feed shortage • Improve animal health (address input
supply and production) • Implement breed improvement program
including creating awareness of inbreeding and benefits of sharing bucks
• Improve horizontal and vertical linkages • Address low Nimah quality
Research and development ‘best bets’
Challenges in the value chain
This document is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence May 2013
Small ruminant value chain development in Tanqua Abergelle, Ethiopia Our vision: “By 2020, we endeavor to see (safe) sustainable and market oriented Abergelle goat farming benefiting all actors
and satisfying consumer requirements and contributing access to balanced nutrition for all”
• High incidence of infectious diseases (rabies, pasteurellosis, PPR, Anthrax)
• Inadequate animal health services (supply of services, drugs and vet equipment, incapacity animal health workers, efficacy of drugs)
• High incidence of abortion and high kid mortality • Feed shortage and inefficient feed utilization • Shortage of forage seeds and planting material • Low productivity of Abergelle goats • Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers and market
information • Shortage of quality goats on the market
Partners: BoARB, OARD, AbARC, ILRI, ICARDA, Abergelle
abattoir, TARI, NVI, FAO
Altitude 1590
Habitat lowland
Distance from Addis 820
Production system Crop-livestock
Human population 93,185
% of female headed household 20
Major products Meat, milk
http://livestockfish.cgiar.org
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