Identifying Investment Opportunities for Ruminant Livestock Feeding in Developing Countries
In the future scenario for livestock development, there is a continuing role for smallholder producers, particular for dairy and small ruminants, relying heavily on grass and crop-residues, however in a growth mode, intensifying production, and enh...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/303271468315576097/Identifying-investment-opportunities-for-ruminant-livestock-feeding-in-developing-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26813 |
| Summary: | In the future scenario for livestock
development, there is a continuing role for smallholder
producers, particular for dairy and small ruminants, relying
heavily on grass and crop-residues, however in a growth
mode, intensifying production, and enhancing the efficiency
of resource use (less land, labor and feed resources per
unit product). In particular improving the efficiency of
converting feed into milk and meat will be critical to
increase their income. Ensuring that happens will require
technical solutions, in ensuring that feed rations are
adequately balanced with the appropriate feedstuffs of
adequate quality, and institutional solutions on how to
provide smallholders access to high quality information and
reliable supplies of sufficient quality feeds. Investment
strategies will need to be purposefully tailored to fit
these specific contexts. This study assesses where the
demand for feed is likely to change the most, and where
investments in feed are most likely to increase animal
productivity and improve the livelihoods of those who raise
livestock. The study focuses on smallholder ruminant-based
livestock systems because they have potentially major
transformative effects on the livelihoods of producers and
others engaged in the related value chains. While pig and
poultry enterprises typically play an important role in
livelihoods at very low input levels, such as backyard
scavenging poultry, they tend to be replaced very quickly by
larger scale commercial units. In India for instance,
broiler production moved from a few hundred birds per unit
to units with a weekly turnover of ten to twenty thousand
between 2001 and 2006. |
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