livestock+commodity

Livestock Commodity Value Chain Development

**Dairy** Targeting Production interventions Input supply Marketing processing Challenges and lessons Lesson
 * Milkshed areas (Bahirdar, Markos, Awasaa, Addis Nazerte,jimma, DireDawa, etc)
 * Both male and female HH farmers
 * Youth, people living with HIV/AIDS
 * Pastoralist and agro-pastoralists
 * Capacity building “(feeding, record keeping husbandry ,housing, etc)
 * Improved milk equipments
 * Mild quality and hygiene
 * Forage development(forage seed to commercialization of forage)
 * Private AI and drug service
 * Private input suppliers(feed)
 * paravets
 * Regulatory action on input equality
 * Estrus synchronization and sexed semen
 * Packaging and grading
 * possess dairy products(product diversification)
 * payment based on quality
 * use modern processing
 * unfair income distribution (men dominate)
 * shortage of crossbred cows
 * shortage of semen and nitrogen
 * imported goods are scarce and expensive
 * synchronization has to be integrated with feed promotion
 * dairy platforms
 * integration of dairy with fodder development
 * private business

Targeting Production interventions Input supply Marketing processing
 * Apiculture**
 * women & land less youth
 * people who have past experience vs less experience
 * suitability of r honey production/context specific
 * demand driven (consider the market)
 * introduction selection of technogies
 * top bar hives/honey bees was
 * modern beehive/table honey
 * Bee forage
 * Identification of bee forage type in relation to honey
 * Linking irrigated with bee forage development
 * Bee colony splitting technology
 * Modern hives
 * Accessories (ex-factor, veil bees waste)( via varies intervention
 * Credit services
 * Supply bee colony
 * Increase bee forage supply
 * Introduction of bee forage closure site
 * Beekeeping supply via local shop, private carpentries and others
 * quality improvement
 * honey extractor
 * timely harvesting
 * grading /seasonal harvesting based on forage species
 * village level collection process by private business people
 * post harvest handling (hygroscopic)

Lessons learned Challenge
 * foundation sheet supply via private/farmer
 * integration of different t beehive technologies
 * attitudinal change/women involvement/
 * farmer based bee colony multiplication
 * integration of apiculture with NRM
 * provision of innovation credit-lesson for microfinance
 * expansion of pesticides
 * lack of organized marketing cooperatives
 * missing link between apiculture and other sector
 * adulteration
 * poor harvesting
 * NR degradations is treat for apicultur

Targeting Production interventions Input supply Marketing processing Lessons learned > Multi-stakeholders approach seems working > Livestock fair with multipurpose roles > Rural infrastructures are essentials Challenges
 * Fattening**
 * Farmers, Pastoralists and agropastoralists
 * Women and men
 * Youth landless group
 * Women group
 * Resource base
 * Market outlet
 * Improved management of animals
 * Stick to short cycled fattening
 * Introduction of fodder development
 * Improving the use of locally available feed resources
 * Enriching fodder banks/communal grazing lands/
 * Enhance Sweet potato cultivation
 * Improve the post harvest management (Metema case) and the introduction of lab our saving technologies
 * Genetic improvement
 * Linking with credit providing institutions
 * Credit service provision
 * Farmer to farmer planting material supply system
 * Use of Improver breeds/Boran, Washera and Bonga sheep breeds/
 * Village shops for various feed inputs and veterinary drugs
 * Linkage creation
 * Promotion /e.g. Livestock fair/
 * Market group development
 * Provision of market information
 * Short cycled fattening/2-3 cycles is possible
 * Water and feed resources problems are one of the core issues in Meisso

Poultry Targeting who to focus on ? where? Input Supply intervention
 * priority: women youth, and the landless for employment and income generation
 * Rural peri-urban and small rural town
 * Developing least cost ration(using locally available resources)
 * Revitalize production of thermo tolerant vaccines

Production intervention Marketing processing Lessons learned Challenge
 * Production of small dose vials(10 – 50 chickens
 * For commercial purpose: wider choice menu of comercial /improved breed
 * Focus on local breed improvement and use
 * Technology improvement(hay box from local available materials; local and small scale hatcheries
 * Support & revitalize local input suppliers
 * market interventions for chicken s and egg
 * intervention in storage transportation and marketing
 * feeding habit of people : eating row eggs, long time of cooking, other ways of consumption
 * market, knowledge and information dissemination system:
 * large number of chickens distribution per hh
 * value chain approach(though not exhaustive)
 * cluster approach critical number for all activities
 * input supply constraints(distance from the input suppliers)