Assessment on Cattle Breeding Practice and Production System Associated with Their Environmental Implication in Ethiopia

Melaku Tafese Awulachew

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Assessment on Cattle Breeding Practice and Production System Associated with Their Environmental Implication in Ethiopia

Melaku Tafese Awulachew

Published in Animal and Veterinary Sciences (Volume 9, Issue 4)

Received: 2 September 2020 Accepted: 23 September 2020 Published: 12 August 2021

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This paper reviewed Cattle breeding practice and production system associated with their environmental implication in Ethiopia, like breeding practice; feed; production and environmental implications on cattle production. The issue of cattle and the production systems that support them is of the utmost significance if Ethiopia is to improve its social and economic stability. Crop-cattle interaction farming systems have been viewed as the poverty saving net for resource-poor rural farmers in the country where the farmers are generally poor and unable to afford conventional fertilizers for soil fertility maintenance. The potentials for increased cattle production and the productivity is proportionally lowered by various cattle management problems, prevalence of major endemic diseases, poor feeding and high stocking rate on grazing lands, lack of support services such as extension services, veterinary services, insufficient data to plan improved services and inadequate information on how to improve animal breeding, marketing, and processing. Empowering small holder producers so that they can provide high quality sustainable cattle production with an identified market destination and they will have access to basic production in put, credit, market related information. Creating strong relationship among various actors. The ministry of agriculture should established necessarily quarantine at appropriate location and introduce necessary products.

Published in	Animal and Veterinary Sciences (Volume 9, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.avs.20210904.13
Page(s)	99-106
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Breeding Practice, Feed, Production, Marketing, Environmental Implications, Ethiopia

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