Uganda Country Brief on “Identifying Investment Opportunities For Livestock Feed Resources
Development In The East African Sub-region”
13th – 15th Dec 2017, ILRI – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
A. KIGOZI (NARO-NaLIRRI) & F. KABI (Makerere University)

Sheep
The Statistics, 2008 LC-MAAIF, Do the Livestock numbers incentivise investment…!??
Cattle Goats

Livestock production Systems & value chain – Madsen et al 2014
93.6% of Cattle, 80% own 5-100
1% are exotic beef breeds
100% Small ruminants
90-95% of poultry
10% HH – Dairy;
2% of beef on ranch
5.6% exotic dairy
5-10% Poultry

Small scale farmers own 90% of the dairy Prodn 33% & 56% of the dairy farmers use
compounded or straight ingredients
The annual compounded feeds production =
40,000 - 75,000t

Concentrate Feeds value chain: Lukuyu et al 2015

Basal Feed Production for intensive systems: Establish Demand and total acreage under commercial forage production
AIBP - Cereal straw:
Anti-quality
factors..!??
Grass-legume
mix
Basal feeds for intensive
production systems

Forage seed and feed production: Establish certification, marketing value-chains, continued quality assessments
Chloris gayana
Lablab
Haylage production
Hay production

Rangeland Rehabilitation
Partial restoration
Full restoration
Bare surface
Manured surface
Possible interventions:
a) Water development
b) Forage development
c) Beef & dairy cattle nutrition
d) Termite damage control
e) Technology Transfer
43% of land area with 90% of livestock
20% of
livestock

Preliminary results indicate that indigenous breeds respond to feed Improvement on range

Total load reduced from 52
to 13kg.
Reduced vibrations.
Working height improved
from 52cm to 120cm.
Machine efficiency: 1.4 tons
per liter compared to 1.2
tons liter
Small scale Hay baler…!!?
Innovations in Livestock Nutrition Bio-engineering

Some Key massages
Research Information needed for
planning purposes
1. Grazing land Rehabilitation
Protocols
2. Crop residues: Cereal straw
utilisation
3. Breaking anti-quality barriers
4. Alternative binders in pelleting
technology
5. Alternative energy to molasses
6. Feeding requirements of Indigenous
breeds
7. Alternative protein sources insect
feed, earthworms, tithonia diversiflora
8. Mechanisation- hay baler, feed
chopper
Approaches towards
commercialisation
1. Fodder producers
1. without livestock – commercial mind
2. With livestock
2. Fodder and seed on field
management protocols based on our
conditions
3. Demonstration plots
4. Farmer Field Schools
5. Fodder and seed storage
management
6. Fodder income generating activities
training and mentoring