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ATNESA workshop stimulates regional cooperation

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Title ATNESA workshop stimulates regional cooperation
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description The first workshop of the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa was held from 18-23 January, 1992, in Lusaka, Zambia.



The overall theme of the workshop was Improving animal traction technology. This broad topic was chosen as a development-orientated framework for analysing and discussing research and extension experiences concerning animal draft power. Seven interrelated subthemes were selected to allow contributors and discussion groups to focus on particular research and development topics:



- Improving the profitability of animal traction;



- Improving draft animal management;



- Improving tillage and weeding technology;



- Improving implement supply/distribution



- Women and animal traction technology; and



- Improving animal powered transport;



The workshop highlighted the great importance of animal traction as a major element in the smallholder farming systems of the region The use of draft animals is expanding in most countries and in some areas almost all smallholder farmers now use animal draft power. Cows are increasingly used for work and research and extension workers should give more attention to this farmer-led process, likewise to the role of donkeys for cultivation and transport.



The lack of accessiblity of animal traction technology to women was another issue raised by the workshop. It was recommended that promotion schemes should ensure that women benefit directly. But the overriding issue affecting all other factors relating to animal traction is profitabilty. Animal traction will only be sustainable if it is profitable to al1 concerned, including manufacturers of spares and suppliers of animals.



ATNESA

Mr Emmanuel Mwenya

Animal Draft Power Coordinator

Agriculture Engineering Section

Department of Agriculture

PO Box 50291

Lusaka

ZAMBIA
Improving animal traction technology
The first workshop of the Animal Traction Network for Eastern and Southern Africa was held from 18-23 January, 1992, in Lusaka, Zambia.
 
Date 2014-10-08T13:41:22Z
2014-10-08T13:41:22Z
1992
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 1992. ATNESA workshop stimulates regional cooperation. Spore 40. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45799
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore, Spore 40
 
Publisher CTA
 
Source Spore