• Address feed shortage
• Improve animal health (input supply and
production)
• Community breeding programs through
controlled mating and fertility management
• Improve horizontal and vertical linkages
• Needs-based capacity building for producers
and extension agents (efficient utilization of
feed resources, sheep disease prevention and
control, sheep fattening)
• Address low quality of sheep
Research and development
‘best bets’
Challenges in the value chain
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Small ruminant value chain development in Atsbi, Ethiopia
Our vision: “By 2020, sustainable market oriented sheep production system that contributes to
nutrition and income of value chain actors”
• Incidence of infectious diseases (pasteurellosis, coenurosis, sheep pox,
mastitis and unidentified) and parasites (liver fluke, tryps, lung worm,
ticks , mites, lice, fleas)
• Shortage of effective drug and vaccine supply and poor delivery of public
veterinary services to producers
• Feed shortage (quantity and quality)
• No selection or breeding strategies
• Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers
• Shortage of quality sheep to the market; low dressing percentage
• Lack of awareness and skills of producers on improved production
Aberge landscape photo(s)
Partners: MoA, TARI, Woreda cooperatives office, Woreda
administration, ICARDA, ILRI, TAMPA, EMDTI, LIVES, Abergelle export
abattoir
Altitude 2400-3000
Habitat Highland
Distance from Addis 851
Production system Mixed crop-livestock
Human population 112,639
% of female headed household 8
Major products Meat
Atsbi sheep value chain