possible interventions and strategies to improve the value chain, for purposes of contextualization, the section opens with an overview of the country perspective and narrows down the issue to Sendafa town. Introduction Ethiopia holds the largest livestock population in Africa estimated to about 52.13 million cattle, 24.2 million sheep and 22.6 million goats (CSA, 2012). The major species used
constraints, opportunities and some of possible interventions and strategies to improve the milk value chain, to contextualization the section opens with an overview of the country perspective and then narrows down the issue to study area. Introduction Ethiopia holds the largest livestock population in Africa estimated to about 52.13 million cattle, 24.2 million sheep and 22.6 million goats (CSA, 2012). The major species used for
first and foremost underlying problem is the lack of an animal welfare legislation/act which has been adopted and implemented in many of the countries around the world. The animal welfare issue does not hold any strong foundation in the many animal /livestock related acts or are introduced just for the sake of mention, without any real impact on the actual scenario. “The Muluki Ain” (General code), dictates some amount of animal welfare which is biased towards the cattle group due the country’s religious
explained as under. If we grow food organically, it benefits the soil, water cycles and biodiversity. The author T. Singh (2004) writes that the Green Revolution technology “has been very successful in achieving spectacular results in food grain production during the last three decades. However, signs of fatigue in the natural resources have already emerged and have unleashed various agro-ecological problems. It has badly damaged the natural resource base of the country”. Organic agriculture, by contrast
are involved in animal husbandry as compared to 1.5 million men. Livestock production in general and cattle and buffalo in particular is highly labour intensive; more than 85 percent of the work, related to livestock production including milching, feeding, maintenance of cattle, irrespective of states, are done by women. Many studies found that women, unlike crop production, do have control over the income generated from the livestock management, but have
as insuranceto improve or counter crisis situations, thus limiting negative effects on food security. Evidenceshows that the impact of transmittals on agriculture is mixed and highly contextual. In some cases,migration and transmittals foster household farm investment and agricultural production, while inothers, the opposite occurs. Transmittals are made by the migrants tothe members of their family in village. Thefindings on the effects of migration on ruralemployment,
Agriculture machinery is a kind of important producer goods for farmers as it plays a significant in agriculture production. With the development of agriculture and agriculture machinery industry, there are rapidly growing requirements for agricultural machinery from consumers, agriculture machinery corporations will an increasing fierce competition in the market.in the modern market economy, being the main body of agriculture machinery market, farmersattitude, perception and preference toward a
crops, livestock, timber), services (e.g. recreational facilities) or other benefits (e.g. conservation of wildlife) - Market orientation, including whether towards subsistence or commercial production - Capital intensity - Labour intensity - Power sources (e.g. human labour, draught animals, machinery using fuels) - Technical knowledge and attitudes of land users - Technology employed (e.g. implements and machinery, fertilizers, livestock breeds, farm transport, methods
for biodiesel production (Kumar and Sharma, 2008). Apart from the ethno medical uses and agro-feed potential of Jatropha curcas seeds and the potential for production of biodiesel, toxic properties have also been adduced to parts of the plant, especially the seeds (El Badawi et al., 1995). Moreover, several cases of Jatropha curcas nut poisoning in humans have been reported following accidental consumption of the seeds with symptoms of giddiness, vomiting, diarrhoea and in extreme cases death (Abdu-
In recent years, with rapid growth of global population hitting 7 billion in 2011, and expected to rise to 9 billion in the year 2050. With this, comes the increase in demand for food and water resources. The growing population leads to increased agricultural activities to feed the demands of the population. There has since been a controversy on the severity of the increase in agricultural activities, creating concern on freshwater pollution because these activities are inevitable. On one hand, this