Assessment on Challenges and Opportunities of Beef Cattle Production in Hawa Gelan District, Kellem Wollega Zone, Western Oromia, Ethiopia

Mohammed Yousuf; Abdi Yusuf

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Assessment on Challenges and Opportunities of Beef Cattle Production in Hawa Gelan District, Kellem Wollega Zone, Western Oromia, Ethiopia

Mohammed Yousuf, Abdi Yusuf

Published in International Journal of Animal Science and Technology (Volume 6, Issue 1)

Received: 30 January 2022 Accepted: 1 March 2022 Published: 18 March 2022

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Pork farm animals have massive function in imparting protein meals for consumers. The take a look at become performed in Hawa Gelan district, Kellem Wollega Zone Western Oromia Ethiopia with the goal to Assessment on Challenges and Opportunities of Beef Cattle Production. Assessment on challenges and opportunities of beef cattle production was carried out on 80 farmers in the study district. Majority of the respondents has been used blended manufacturing device (50%) due to the fact maximum of the red meat farm animals manufacturers had been they take part in crop manufacturing, farm animals rearing sports and dealer game. The end result of this take a look at shows that 45% of the respondents rely upon herbal pasture, 22.5% of crop residues, 15% of sparkling grass cutting, 7.5% of sugar cane and 10% of maize grain as a basal feed for his or her farm animals. Price willpower for pork farm animals advertising and transactions on the look at place 87.5% have been through the negotiation among the sellers/manufacturers and the customers and 12.5% of the respondents said that agents intervene among the sellers/manufacturers and the customers. The foremost water supply is determined from river water, faucet water and ponds. The supply of livestock for fattening had been majorly from marketplace (purchasing, 78.75%), whilst the rests had been from personal herd 10% and 11.25% from both. Feed scarcity, feed cost, land scarcity, insufficient housing, genetic aspect and occurrence of illnesses like blackleg disease, lumpy pores and skin disease, Pasteurellosis, Anthrax, Bloating and Parasites are the foremost demanding situations for pork farm animals manufacturing. The root reasons of feed scarcity had been loss of land, excessive fee of feed and occasional great and amount of feed supplementation. When the manufacturer receives the land that used for forage manufacturing they must be use advanced forage. The authorities must paintings on introducing excessive feed yielder forage and must forage improvement techniques specifically outside forage manufacturing gadget to be able to clear up the feed scarcity in phrases of great and amount. Government must enhance advertising linkage of the pork farm animal’s products. In the destiny the limitations cited at the take a look at region must be solved via way of means of the authorities in collaboration with all stake holders and the possibilities must be improve above these.

Published in	International Journal of Animal Science and Technology (Volume 6, Issue 1)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijast.20220601.13
Page(s)	21-29
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Demanding Situations, Possibilities, Farm Animals, Manufacturing, Fattening

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Mohammed Yousuf, Abdi Yusuf. Assessment on Challenges and Opportunities of Beef Cattle Production in Hawa Gelan District, Kellem Wollega Zone, Western Oromia, Ethiopia. Int J Anim Sci Technol. 2022;6(1):21-29. doi: 10.11648/j.ijast.20220601.13

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Mohammed Yousuf

Department of Animal and Range Science, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, Dambi Dollo University, Dambi Dollo, Ethiopia
Abdi Yusuf

Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science, Oda Bultum University, Chiro, Ethiopia

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