feed+priority+areas

=Ethiopian Livestock Feeds Project Synthesis Meeting= 28-29 May 2012 Addis Ababa

Quick identification of feed priority areas, generated by participants in small groups


 * Selection of food-feed crops to improve crop residue value[genetic improvement of feed value of food fee crops]


 * Need more actors in the feed markets


 * Lack of market oriented forage production


 * Scale up intensive production of fodder under irrigation


 * Asses export of oil seeds us processing locally so that the cakes can be available for livestock feeding


 * More within-country processing of oil seeds


 * Crop residue: strong and improving and formulation with local feed stuffs


 * Enhancing better CR storage, and simple physical treatment to improve quality


 * Mechanization of agriculture and intensification of livestock production


 * Crop production has to be mechanized and its dependences on livestock should be reduced so that livestock production intensification


 * Institutionalize forage seed production and marketing


 * Forage seed development and marketing


 * Improvement of crop residue through urea molasses treatment


 * Making available real time feed market information system


 * Planting forages on soil and water conservation structures, under zero grazing


 * Introduce crop residue chopper especially for sorghum/maize stovers to improve intake and performance of livestock


 * Promotion of feed conservation methodologies


 * Institutionalizing feed marketing regulations


 * Taxation particularly VAT is not considered for food items from agro-industries but feeds as a by products are heavily taxed feeds from agro-industry should be exempted for some kind of taxation like VAT


 * Pasture rehabilitation and management of stocking rates


 * Grazing(pasture) - managing stocking rate + policy issues: land use policy


 * Pasture rehabilitation and management of stocking rates