• Increase feed supply
• Needs-based training on sheep management
practices and other related issues (feed, health,
breeding, fattening, marketing linkages)
• Improve animal health through additional support
for revolving funds for drug supplies, logistics for
animal health posts, open air vet clinics
• Improve and deliver genetics through Community
breeding programs also to address supply of low
quality animals
• Form farmers cooperatives (associations) to
empower and specialize sheep producing and
marketing producers
• Improve market linkages through multi-stakeholder
meetings to improve consistency in demand and
supply of sheep, develop competitive sheep
marketing system (for fair income distribution
among market actors)
Research and development
‘best bets’
Challenges in the value chain
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May 2013
Small ruminant value chain development in Doyogena, Ethiopia
Our vision: “By 2020, increased household income and nutrition (livelihood) of value chain actors
through an efficient specialized (trade-marked) and sustainable Doyogena sheep value chain”
• High incidence of respiratory diseases
• Insufficient revolving funds, poor office facilities, poor supply of drugs and
vaccine, shortage of working capital
• Shortage of seeds of improved forage species and high feed prices
• Poor awareness among farmers of improved production practices
• Limited number of rams and inbreeding problems
• Poor linkages among market actors and long market chain
• Inconsistent supply of animals and low quality
Altitude 1900-2300
Habitat Highland (70%)
Distance from Addis 258
Production system Mixed crop-livestock
Human population 78,634
% of female headed household 10
Major products Meat
Partners: SARI, ICARDA, ILRI, MoA
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