Tagline: Targeting feeding requirements for small holder dairy cattle farmers
Champion: Raphael Mrode
Team: Animal Biosciences
In developed countries feeding standards are established and published for several species of livestock. These standards are application to most farmers because management is homogeneous and breeds well defined. However this is not the case for small holders farmers here in Africa. Given limited resources in the small holder, a quick method to prediction of minimum nutrient requirement to ensure improved productivity will be beneficial to the small holder system. Such a quick prediction method will be based on the establishing a protocol for measuring condition score and body weight ( both easy to measure) and minimum nutrient requirement prediction tailored to the farmer and his management system. I think this is a good idea that is easily to implement with immediate impact.
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