Feizal Houssein Iye & Elmi Ali Ahmed, Animal Health Experts, Djibouti
LIVESTOCK FEED RESOURCES IN DJIBOUTI
MAEPE-RH
Identifying investment opportunities for livestock feed resources development in
the Eastern Africa Sub-Region, ILRI Addis, 13-15 December 2017

Introduction
- Djibouti as arid and semi arid country, The climates of Djibouti are hot, desert and dry
between 25-40°c.
- The rainfall is not abundant with an average of 150 mm / year. However, they are
predominant in the coastal areas during the cool period and within the country during the
hot season.
- There is no permanent watercourse; it is the residual flood waters, aquifers that are
exploited. therefore; there is a lack of animal feed resources relating to animal resources in
Djibouti.
- 80% of Djibouti animal resources remained in traditional pasture system depending on
natural feed. while 20% remain in sedentary- agro pastoral society. Which some of them are
working on model system for animal feed system.

Available Animal Feed Resource with
Sedentary,(Agro-pastoral) Farmers.
• Some of agro-pastoral farmer
are following on model
system to feeding their
animals balanced and
adequate feeding program.
• they have a cultivate areas to
plant different types of
fodder.
• Alfalfa, Soudan grass, panic
grass...ets are the most
available types with the
farms.
• User forms: farmers are using
the produce grass in the form
of hay and green grass to
feed the animals.
AlfalfaPanic Grass

Continue:
Elephant grass
Soudan Grass.
Some trees
 Agro-pastoral society enhanced
their performance since last 10 years.
Animal feeding program in Djibouti
has a many critical challenges, Which
has become an hindrance of improving
the animal feed production
performance.
these challenges are:
1- Environmental condition: The hot
season from May to September with an
average temperature of 40 ° C
2- lack of farmers capacities of animal
feed side.
3- lack of supporter organizations to
enhance performance of local farmers
by providing fodder cereal, fertilizers ,,,,
and improved cereal.

Animal feed- Concentrate
• Animal production
farmers are formats the
available components to
create concentrate feed.
sorghum, wheat bran,
maize and soybean.
• for vitamins and mineral
resources, some of the
farmers has abilities to
make national forms
from available elements.

How reliable are they and where are the gaps?
• the farmers has willingness to work hardly
to raise their production to a level of self-
sufficiency in next 5 years.
• Supply level is less than demand level. so,
in cooperation between horn Africa
countries, must be there strategy and
work plan for promoting the supply level.
• The farmers are suffering a many gaps to
develop their production performance.
• difficult import process, to import some of
animal feed types from neighbor
countries.
• lack of regional organizations to support
and to promote the import and export of
animal feed among the Horn of Africa.
• lack of farmers capacity: training , seminar
for animal feed.

RECOMMENDATON.
• for improving animal feed resource in
eastern Africa countries, must be there
regional organization which would
supervise and coordinate the training
and seminars for the farmers. and also,
could planning strategy for this.
• must be there common areas between
neighbor countries to produce animal
feed together.
• must be there political plan or strategy
and deals, for financing common
areas.
• must be there common institute for
improving and producing grains for
eastern Africa countries.
Visits to field of animal feed
production farm

Thanks for the attention.