Land pressure drives hunt for resilient livestock genes in East Africa, world congress told

      Scientists from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) are among experts discussing livestock genetics at the 10th World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production in Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 17-22, 2014. Fidalis Denis Mujibi, discusses the Use of high density SNP genotypes to determine the breed composition of cross bred dairy cattle in smallholder farms: assessment […]

Filling the milk glass: East African farmers to gain from new recording device

Filling the milk glass: East African farmers to gain from new recording device

Filling the milking glass and having some left over cash is what every farmer craves. Measuring that profit however is a numbers game, a tough one for that matter as a team of researchers from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) recently found out. They were challenged enough to seek a solution. When researchers of the ‘Germplasm for Dairy Development in […]