Abstract
This paper reviewed Cattle breeding practice and production system associated with their environmental implication in Ethiopia, like breeding practice; feed; production and environmental implications on cattle production. The issue of cattle and the production systems that support them is of the utmost significance if Ethiopia is to improve its social and economic stability. Crop-cattle interaction farming systems have been viewed as the poverty saving net for resource-poor rural farmers in the country where the farmers are generally poor and unable to afford conventional fertilizers for soil fertility maintenance. The potentials for increased cattle production and the productivity is proportionally lowered by various cattle management problems, prevalence of major endemic diseases, poor feeding and high stocking rate on grazing lands, lack of support services such as extension services, veterinary services, insufficient data to plan improved services and inadequate information on how to improve animal breeding, marketing, and processing. Empowering small holder producers so that they can provide high quality sustainable cattle production with an identified market destination and they will have access to basic production in put, credit, market related information. Creating strong relationship among various actors. The ministry of agriculture should established necessarily quarantine at appropriate location and introduce necessary products.
Highlights
Ethiopia is a largely rural country with an agrarian economy
Animal and Veterinary Sciences 2021; 9(4): 99-106. This portion of scientific reports conducted on related to Assessment on Cattle breeding practice and production system associated with their environmental constraints in Ethiopia
The largest livestock population in Africa is owned by Ethiopia. cattle contribute to agriculture, food and rural development of the country
Summary
Ethiopia is a largely rural country with an agrarian economy. Livestock are of economic and social importance both at the household and national levels, and have in the past provided significant export earnings. Ethiopia had been exporting approximately 200,000 livestock annually [2]. The actual performance has remained very low, leaving most of the projected livestock off take for the unofficial cross-border export and the domestic market. These become barriers to understand and analyses the full range of activities required to bring a product (live animals, meat) to final consumers passing through the different phases of production, marketing, processing and delivery to the consumers. Given the low level of economic development in the country, the pressure exerted on the environment by growing human and livestock populations has exacerbated the rapid depletion of the natural resource base [5]. The present study is undertaken to review Assessment on Cattle breeding practice and production system associated with their environmental implication in general
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