Abstract
<p class="StandardTextkrperSAR">This paper is an overview of livestock improvement and extension management technologies that are aimed at attainment of Food security and industrial development in Nigeria. It demystifies the concept of livestock improvement and examines the rationale for embarking on livestock improvement; and it also highlights livestock improvement management technologies that are sinequa non for attaining food security and industrial development in Nigeria. The paper recommends adoption of cross breeding of improved breeds of livestock; Pedigree selection, artificial insemination, establishment of progeny-testing stations and adoption of performance testing and livestock breeding value evaluation.</p>
Highlights
Nigeria has a teeming population of 140 million people and a land mass of 923,769 Km2 (NPC, 2006)
This paper is an overview of livestock improvement and extension management technologies that are aimed at attainment of Food security and industrial development in Nigeria
It demystifies the concept of livestock improvement and examines the rationale for embarking on livestock improvement; and it highlights livestock improvement management technologies that are sinequa non for attaining food security and industrial development in Nigeria
Summary
Nigeria has a teeming population of 140 million people and a land mass of 923,769 Km2 (NPC, 2006). This population subsists either directly or indirectly on crop products/ crop-by products and animal products/ animal by-products for their nutritional needs. According to Uza et al (1999), nutrition, diseases/pests and poor management systems and practices have for long militated against the improvement of livestock production and productivity in developing countries of the world.
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