Abstract
Assessment of Beef Cattle Husbandry Practices in North Shoa Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Highlights
The Ethiopian economy is highly dependent on agriculture and Ethiopian Agriculture is highly dependent on livestock
Livestock play an important role in agriculture and contribute about 40% to the Agricultural economy excluding the values of draught power and manure [1]
Cattle fattening is an effective tool for poverty alleviation and has become an important business for smallholder farmers as well as urban dwellers in Ethiopia
Summary
The Ethiopian economy is highly dependent on agriculture and Ethiopian Agriculture is highly dependent on livestock. Livestock play an important role in agriculture and contribute about 40% to the Agricultural economy excluding the values of draught power and manure [1]. Ethiopia’s domestic meat consumption for 2015 has been estimated at 2.5kg/capita per year for beef and veal, 1.3kg/ capita per year for sheep meat and 0.6 kg/capita per year for poultry meat and 0.0kg/ capita per year for pork meat. About 21.81 million animals (499,841 cattle, 3,539,278 sheep, 2,421,576 goat 15,339,804 poultry and 4,625 camels) were slaughtered by households [2]. The consumption practice of meat in Ethiopia has associated with cultural practices and it plays important role in cultural and/or religious ceremonies and its cultural symbolic weight is significantly greater than most other food [3]
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