Smallholder goat production in Malawi

Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi

CHICKEN GENETIC RESOURCES USED IN SMALLHOLDER PRODUCTION SYSTEMS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THEIR DEVELOPMENT Smallholder Poultry Production

5 Author Poul Sørensen has many years of experience with poultry research. His particular interest is in breeding and genetics. He has contributed to the development of Danish poultry breeding since the beginning of his career and over time came to be the leading person in this area. With the intensification of poultry breeding worldwide he shifted his attention to the consequences of narrowing...

Cotton Production in Malawi

Promotion of Smallholder Dairy Production in Bangladesh

Bangladesh is a densely populated agricultural country with an acute shortage of dairy milk. There are about 24.5 million cattle in Bangladesh, of which about 10 million are breeding cows. They provide mainly milk, meat, draught power, transport, and hide (an important export item). Dairying is practiced in Bangladesh as a part of local crop livestock farming systems, typically involving one or...

Small Ruminant: Goat Production

Chicory (Chicorum intybus) is becoming popular as a warm-season forage for ruminant livestock in the United States. A study was conducted with weaned crossbred meat goats to elucidate how growing / finishing meat goats grazing Joy chicory pasture respond to supplementation with varying levels of dietary protein. Thirty 6 weaned crossbred kids (26 ± 3 kg) were blocked by body weight and genotype...