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IPMS Experience-Sharing Workshop on Market-Oriented Smallholder Development Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2-3 June 2011 Livestock Fattening Value Chain Development Group Report

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<ul><li>Targeting </li></ul><ul><li>Farmers, Pastoralists and agropastoralists </li></ul><ul><li>Women and men </li></ul><ul><li>Youth landless group </li></ul><ul><li>Women group </li></ul><ul><li>Resource base </li></ul><ul><li>Market outlet </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Production Interventions </li></ul><ul><li>Improved management of animals </li></ul><ul><li>Stick to short cycled fattening </li></ul><ul><li>Introduction of fodder development </li></ul><ul><li>Improving the use of locally available feed resources </li></ul><ul><li>Enriching fodder banks/communal grazing lands/ </li></ul><ul><li>Enhance Sweet potato cultivation </li></ul><ul><li>Improve the post harvest management (Metema case) and </li></ul><ul><li>the introduction of lab our saving technologies </li></ul><ul><li>Genetic improvement </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Input Supply Interventions </li></ul><ul><li>Linking with credit providing institutions </li></ul><ul><li>Credit service provision </li></ul><ul><li>Farmer to farmer planting material supply system </li></ul><ul><li>Use of Improver breeds/Boran, Washera and Bonga sheep breeds/ </li></ul><ul><li>Village shops for various feed inputs and veterinary drugs </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Marketing Interventions </li></ul><ul><li>Linkage creation </li></ul><ul><li>Promotion /e.g. Livestock fair/ </li></ul><ul><li>Market group development </li></ul><ul><li>Provision of market information </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Lessons learned </li></ul><ul><li>Short cycled fattening/2-3 cycles is possible </li></ul><ul><li>Multi-stakeholders approach seems working </li></ul><ul><li>Livestock fair with multipurpose roles </li></ul><ul><li>Rural infrastructures are essentials </li></ul>

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<ul><li>Challenges </li></ul><ul><li>Water and feed resources problems are one of the core issues in Meisso </li></ul>

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