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The feeding component in rural and peri-urban smallholder pig systems in Uganda

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Title The feeding component in rural and peri-urban smallholder pig systems in Uganda
 
Creator Pezo, Danilo A.
Ouma, Emily A.
Lule, Peter M.
Dione, Michel M.
Lukuyu, Ben A.
Carter, N.
Roesel, Kristina
 
Subject swine
 
Description In the last 30 years, Uganda has had a massive growth in pig population, from 190,000
in the late 90’s to 3.2 million pigs in 2008, and currently has the highest per capita consumption
of pork in East Africa (3.4 kg year). The majority of Uganda’s pig farmers
are smallholders (1.2 million households raise pigs), practicing low input/ low output
systems. In the three districts of Kamuli, Masaka and Mukono, where the study was
carried out, results of focus group discussions conducted in 35 villages showed that
regardless of the setting, whether rural or peri-urban, the smallholder pig production
systems are typical crop-livestock system, with high dependence on crop residues, i.e.
sweet potato vines, cassava leaves, yam leaves, and Amaranth spp. for pig feeding.
However, the relative contribution of those crop residues is strongly affected by rainfall
seasonality, which in turn influences crop production. The bulk (>95 %) of crop
residues used for feeding pigs is produced on farm. Trading of crop residues is minimal
hence comprising only
 
Date 2014-09-17
2014-09-30T10:47:30Z
2014-09-30T10:47:30Z
 
Type Poster
 
Identifier Pezo, D., Ouma, E. A., Lule, P., Dione, M., Lukuyu, B., Carter, N. and Roesel, K. 2014. The feeding component in rural and peri-urban smallholder pig systems in Uganda. Poster presented at the Tropentag 2014 Conference on Bridging the Gap between Increasing Knowledge and Decreasing Resources, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-19 September 2014. Nairobi, Kenya. ILRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43793
https://www.slideshare.net/ILRI/the-feeding-component-in-rural-and-periurban-smallholder-pig-systems-in-uganda
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Livestock Research Institute