Potential livestock value chain interventions

Dirk Hoekstra

LIVES Research Planning Workshop

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 26-28 March 2013

Livestock value chain interventions

• Production

• Input/service supply interventions

• Processing/marketing interventions

• Livestock specific knowledge/capacity development interventions

Livestock production interventions

• Breeds

• Fodder

• Health

• Market oriented animal husbandry

Livestock input/service supply interventions

• Multiplication systems for (improved) breeds• Veterinary drugs supply• Health services• Supply feeds, accessories

Improved breeds

• Dairy– Peri - urban fluid milk system – crosses with exotics– Rural local butter system – crosses Jersey, Borana, Begait,

Fogera

• Small ruminants– Crosses with exotic breeds– Improved local breeds (through ram selection)

• Large ruminants– Mainly male animals/oxen from improved dairy butter

breeds within the same location or pastoral areas – crosses with Borana

Improved breeds

• Poultry– Peri urban (semi) commercial system: exotic

egg and broiler types – Rural semi commercial system: local breeds

• Apiculture– No improved bees – some characterization is

on-going by Holetta research)

Breed/animal multiplication and services

• On farm reproduction (part of animal husbandry practices)

• Specialized services– Private AI services (dairy/beef)– Hormone assisted mass insemination (dairy/beef)– Heifer breeding farms in rural areas(dairy)– Community breeding schemes (small ruminants)– Production day old chicks (poultry)– Pullet producers (poultry)– AI for poultry – Bee colony multiplication/AI (apiculture)

Fodder development interventions

• Grazing area development– Enclosures, cut and carry, rotational use,fertilization, over sowing– Conservation of grasses (hay, silage)

• Planted fodder – backyard, cropland, irrigation plot– Perennial grasses– Perennial and annual (rotational) legumes – Conservation (hay,silage)

• Crop residues– Increase through cereal/pulses crop improvement (new varieties,

feed/food) – Treatment – chopping, urea, molasses– Conservation (silage)– Use of horticultural crop residues (banana, leafy vegetables)

Input/service supply interventions for planted fodder development

interventions

• Management system communal grazing areas• Supply of forage seeds/ cuttings– FTCs– Private farmers– Linkages with regional/federal level seed suppliers

• Mechanical chopping/bailing services

Market oriented animal husbandry

• Animal reproduction – fertility management• Housing • Feeding and watering• Health – mortality • Waste management • Business scale • Timing • Quality• Animal identification/record keeping

Supply of inputs/services interventions for market oriented animal husbandry

• District level coops and/or private shops stocking required inputs (feeds, drugs, accessories) using hub approach and agro dealership linkages

• Community animal health worker system (dairy, large/small ruminants)

• Women vaccination workers (pullets)• Credit products to purchase commercial inputs and

scale up operations

Livestock processing/marketing interventions

• Collective action to reduce sales/processing cost per unit of product (hub approach)– Milk collection centers– Women butter groups for home processing of local butter– Private/cooperative dairy processing: fluid milk/table butter (peri

urban) and local butter in rural areas– Marketing groups large & small ruminants

• Create linkages including contract farming– Dairy farmers/milk collection centers with processors– Apiculturist with export abattoirs/honey processors– Poultry/dairy producers with institutional consumers

• Quality/food safety improvement– Milk/butter quality testing/payment– Slaughtering hygiene

Livestock & environment interventions

• Utilization of manure for biogass production • Zoning of livestock production in peri urban

areas• Create synergies between grazing areas

development and apiculture• Fewer/higher producing animals to reduce

methane emission

Livestock specific knowledge/capacity development interventions

• Commodity specific platforms• Animal and forage husbandry training• Training individuals/communities in commodity specific

service delivery and input production– Grazing area management– Community breeding schemes – Mass insemination– Health service delivery– Forage seed multiplication– Pullet production/day old chick production– Bee colony splitting

• Training processors in food quality and safety

Equipment/supplies for market oriented livestock development for demonstration testing

• Ear tags/chips• Electronic recording devices• E-readers• Mobile milking machines• Quality testing equipment• Heat detection devices• Hormones• Choppers/ bailers• Incubators• Bio gas electric generators/storage bags• Modern housing

Thank you