Tag: Livestock
Improved animal feed equals increased dairy incomes in Bihar
Anuj Kumar Jha, a very young farmer of Kalyanpur village, Sarairanjan block, Samastipur district of Bihar. He only has 0.5 acre of agricultural land and was unsure...
Woman farmer celebrates better life through livestock in Odisha, India
Pravati is the secretary of the Kapila Muni women Milk Society under local government cooperative society (Orissa State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED)) in Barandua village. She...
Strike turns Indian farmer to an overnight dairy feed businessman
The seemingly sleepy village at the end of the road is not so sleepy after all.
Guagadia village produced an overnight entrepreneur, one who had never imagined he...
Barbara Wieland joins ILRI’s Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity team
Barbara Wieland joined the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) on 5 January 2015 as team leader herd health in the Animal Science for Sustainable Productivity (ASSP) program.
Wieland...
Study shows how Tanzania dairy farmers stand to benefit from improved commercial feeds
A new study has revealed the extent to which dairy farmers in Tanzania are under-served by the feeds manufacturing sector, which despite having adequate capacity, is operating...
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,...
Lessons from research: Delivering results from FoodAfrica
Experts from different scientific fields and international research organizations shared their expertise on food and nutrition security on Monday 16 June, 2014 at the FoodAfrica midterm seminar....
Ear tags stir fresh interest in goats in Ethiopian village
Tilahun Seyoum is by all standards a grown up responsible husband, father and community leader. He also belongs to the school of thought that believes, to learning...
Farmer Yohannes smiling all the way to the bank – chicken and eggs sustain...
Farmer Yohannes holds his sixteen (16) eggs, five hundred Ethiopian Birr and his brand new savings account book for his first ever bank account with only two...
Producing more milk, more meat with less water
When Sasakawa-Global 2000 and the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) provided training and loans to a group of farmers in the Awash Valley, Ethiopia, little did they...
