Climate-smart Brachiaria Program

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  • Presentation speakers
    • Sita Ghimire, Senior Scientist, ILRI

  Rationale for research

  • Livestock form livelihood of small holder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  • SSA has the lowest livestock productivity in the world.
  • Shortage of quality forages is major constraints for livestock in SSA
  • Brachiaria are native grasses adapted to drought & low fertility soils.
  • Extensively grown pasture in tropics but not in Africa.
  • Program aims to explore & promote Brachiaria as cultivated pasture in the region to increase livestock productivity

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