Livestock Census is a regular quinquennial exercise of Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD). The first Livestock Census was conducted in the year 1919 and last census i.e. 20th Livestock Census was conducted in 2019. The 21st Livestock Census exercise has been launched across the country on 25th October, …
Hundreds of fishermen and herders in Kenya’s coastal Lamu County, a UNESCO world heritage site, are reeling from a prolonged drought that dried up fresh water lakes. Sources at the department of fisheries told Xinhua that fishermen who eke a living out of ox-bow lakes spread across Lamu have been …
Rwanda and Turkey have signed an agreement of cooperation in the fields of agriculture and livestock, an official at the Rwandan embassy in Ankara, Turkey said. The agreement was signed by Turkey’s Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Faruk Celik, and Rwanda’s Ambassador to Turkey, Amb. Williams Nkurunziza, at the …
ARUSHA, Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Nearly 6,000 cattle have died in Tanzania’s northwestern region of Shinyanga between last September and February of this year due to drought, an official said Thursday. Beda Chamadata, of the Shinyanga region’s livestock office, said the animal deaths include 5,855 cows and 73 goats. He said …
Launching a major move to liberalise agricultural markets in the country, the Centre circulated among the states a draft model law seeking to break the monopoly of traditional APMC mandis and allowing states to set up a unified platform and also private players to set up individual market yards. The …
As a result of the quarantine, no meat or animal products including milk and ghee are allowed out of the area. The area, which lies at the northern extreme of Luweero district, accounts for an estimated 50% of all cows in Luweero. The foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a severe and …
Tens of thousands of pastoralists fled from Turkana in Kenya to Uganda last week to escape the drought. It is the latest blow for the parched region for which politicians once made rash promises of rapid modernization. As many as 10,000 Kenyan pastoralists have crossed the border from Turkana in …
Bulawayo — Lions are wreaking havoc in Binga, killing livestock after straying into villages. About 32 goats and eight cattle have been killed in two weeks in Chitete Village, Sinansengwe Ward, under Chief Sinansengwe. Sinansengwe ward councillor Mr Elmon Mudenda said they reported the matter to the Zimbabwe Parks and …
Adetunji Oredipe, World Bank’s Fadama Team Leader, who disclosed this on Wednesday, said the fund is meant to revitalise the nation’s livestock sub-sector. Fadama is a Hausa word that generally means irrigable land. Mr. Oredipe said that the World Bank was working in tandem with the Nigerian government to formulate …
Harare - Cash-strapped Zimbabwe's latest plan to have parents pay school fees in goats has got some Zimbabweans up in arms - but not everyone thinks it's a bad idea. Education Minister Lazarus Dokora and a ministry official have told the state-controlled Sunday Mail that schools must be "flexible" when …
Acting Secretary, Agriculture and Rural Development of the FCT, Dr. Musa A. Aliyu, announced this yesterday in Abuja.He said: “In January, 2016, the agriculture secretariat was hit by an outbreak of the deadly avian flu influenza. The Agriculture and Rural Development Division of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)’s Administration has …
The United Nation’s Food and Agricultural Organisation, FAO, on Thursday, said it has set aside the total sum of $65 million to help farmers who were displaced by Boko Haram return to business. The FAO said farmers from the three states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe state who had lost …
LORENGELUP, Kenya, April 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In this part of northwest Kenya, one of the worst droughts in years has left the land littered with carcasses of dead livestock – even hardy camels. Normally droughts here lead to the early marriage of girls, as pastoralist families look for …
Furious residents of rural Moyeni village outside Libode are demanding the immediate closure of a municipal dumpsite‚ claiming their cattle were dying in large numbers from swallowing discarded plastic bags and medical needles. Nestled on a portion of a vast tract of grazing land between their village and the town …
Githongo — Turning maize to silage makes sense for dairy farmers and cattle - but could it lead to food shortages? Dressed in a green hat and black mud boots, Gilbert Gitonga is busy tending his 3-acre (1.2-hectare) farm in Kenya's Meru County. Moving among rows of maize plants, he …
Choice of food and trade in foodstuff were part of right to life said Allahabad high court and ordered UP government to draw up a plan in 10 days so that the crackdown on illegal abattoirs and meat shops didn’t deprive people of their livelihood or food. Order of the …
In this modelling study, the researchers optimised typical dietary patterns in an Indian population sample to meet projected decreases in the availability of water per person for irrigation (blue water footprint) due to population growth (to 2025 and 2050). The optimised diets met nutritional guidelines and minimised deviation from existing …
This catalogue provides an overview of management options that can enhance the ecological and economic benefits of exclosures, promote local ownership and support communities to adopt exclosures. Particularly, this catalogue discusses management option that can be implemented during the regeneration of phase of exclosure land management. This catalogue of options …
This is the final report of the baseline and good practices study on water and fodder availability along the livestock trade routes in the Horn of Africa. This regional study aims to consolidate findings from previous activities by FAO and other stakeholders, and identify good practices, existing infrastructure and the …
This publication is intended to contribute to the implementation of the livestock and climate change development agenda. The study evaluates the potential for improving productivity while reducing enteric methane emission intensity from dairy production systems in Ethiopia. The overall objective of this study is to support Ethiopia in identifying low-cost …
BURAO, Somalia (Reuters) - In a makeshift camp beside a disused airfield in the breakaway Somali region of Somaliland, 32-year old Nima Mohamed sits next to an open wood fire, boiling a kettle of black tea. Unless aid groups bring them food and water, the tea is the only meal …
