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Assessment of livestock feed resources utilization in Alaba Woreda, Southern Ethiopia

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Title Assessment of livestock feed resources utilization in Alaba Woreda, Southern Ethiopia
 
Creator Admassu, Y.M.
 
Subject ANIMAL FEEDING
LIVESTOCK
FEED RESOURCES
 
Description This study was undertaken in the crop and livestock production system interactions of smallholders upon fixed and fragmented land holdings in livestock and human populated area of Alaba, Southern Ethiopia with the objective of quantifying the major feed resources and evaluating the efficiency of utilizations of these feeds. General linear model (GLM) was fitted for dry matter yield of private grazing lands of the household in tonnes over covariates household grazing land size and number of households’ livestock in TLU for each type of livestock’s. Models were fitted for crop residues dry matter yield and aftermaths of the households including utilization efficiency and all were significant. Average family size of the households was 8.52 with literacy of the households’ leaders’ value of 52.5 % for the Woreda overall. Mean holdings of total lands did not vary between the two farming systems significantly (P > 0.05) but land use systems varied between the two study sites significantly (P 0.05) with Pepper / Wheat /Livestock farming system having higher values than Teff / Haricot bean /Livestock system. Similarly, livestock holding in tropical livestock unit ( TLU) and total dry matter (DM) productions of feed resources were significantly different between the two study sites (P < 0.05) except for poultry which was non-significant (P >0.05) and the major sources of feeds for livestock near to 78 % are obtained from crop residues followed by grazing lands. In this regard rate of cultivation of lands is far great for Teff / Haricot Bean /Livestock system and significant differences of crop residues yield was observed between the two study sites (P
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Date 2010-02-22T11:11:43Z
2010-02-22T11:11:43Z
2008-04
 
Type Thesis
 
Identifier Admassu, Y.M. Haramaya University, Haramaya (Ethiopia). 2008. Assessment of livestock feed resources utilization in Alaba Woreda, Southern Ethiopia. MSc thesis (Animal Production). 127p. Haramaya (Ethiopia): Haramaya University.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/694
 
Language en
 
Publisher Haramaya University