• Address feed shortage
• Improve animal health (address input
supply and production)
• Implement breed improvement program
including creating awareness of inbreeding
and benefits of sharing bucks
• Improve horizontal and vertical linkages
• Address low Nimah quality
Research and development
‘best bets’
Challenges in the value chain
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May 2013
Small ruminant value chain development in Tanqua Abergelle, Ethiopia
Our vision: “By 2020, we endeavor to see (safe) sustainable and market oriented Abergelle goat farming benefiting all actors
and satisfying consumer requirements and contributing access to balanced nutrition for all”
• High incidence of infectious diseases (rabies, pasteurellosis, PPR,
Anthrax)
• Inadequate animal health services (supply of services, drugs and vet
equipment, incapacity animal health workers, efficacy of drugs)
• High incidence of abortion and high kid mortality
• Feed shortage and inefficient feed utilization
• Shortage of forage seeds and planting material
• Low productivity of Abergelle goats
• Lack of vertical and horizontal linkages of sheep producers and market
information
• Shortage of quality goats on the market
Partners: BoARB, OARD, AbARC, ILRI, ICARDA, Abergelle
abattoir, TARI, NVI, FAO
Altitude 1590
Habitat lowland
Distance from Addis 820
Production system Crop-livestock
Human population 93,185
% of female headed household 20
Major products Meat, milk
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