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• Address feed shortages
• Improve animal health - input supplies
• Implement breed improvement program including creating awareness of inbreeding and benefits of sharing bucks
• Improve horizontal and vertical linkages
• Needs-based capacity building for producers and extension agents (on efficient utilization of feed resources and finishing goats for markets)
• Develop a package to help producers meet quality standards (fattening, training)
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 Waq 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”
• Incidence of infectious diseases (pasteurellosis, coenurosis, PPR) and internal and external parasites
• Incidence of abortion and high kid mortality • Feed shortage during dry season and lack of alternative sources • Low productivity of Abergelle goats • Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers • Shortage of quality goats on the market • Producers lack knowledge of improved feeding methods
Partners: Amhara Region Livestock Agency, Sekota
Dryland Agricultural Research Center, ICARDA, ILRI,
EMDTI, NVI, FAO
Altitude 1340-2200
Habitat Semi-arid
Distance from Addis 770
Production system Crop-livestock
Human population 47,106
% of female headed household 8
Major products Meat, milk
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