Forage seed supply in Ethiopia—Some thoughts on current status and ...

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Forage seed supply in Ethiopia – some thoughts on current status and how it might evolve<br />National Forage Seed Worksho...

Background<br />Feed supply is a persistent bottleneck to increasing livestock productivity in Ethiopia<br />

Indicative prices for different fodder types (ETB/kg) in various woredas. <br />Prices are adjusted for inflation figures ...

Changing diets ̶ a new agriculture of high value products and non-traditional exports<br />Meat<br />Horticulture<br />...

Feed supply patterns are changing<br />Kahsay Berhe (2004) study in Yarer Mountain area <br /><ul><li>Cultivated land has ...

Switch in source of nutrition for livestock from grazing to CR</li></li></ul><li>Dietary composition of livestock – Bangla...

Feed scarcity is an issue<br />Absolute scarcity of biomass<br />Shortage of protein to improve utilization of poor qualit...

Rhodes grass (Chloris gayana) <br />Expect from 10 to 25 tonnes dry matter per hectare. Crude protein content is around 13...

Fodder adoption<br />Fodder has a low adoption rate in Ethiopia because...<br />Dominance of arable production<br />Small ...

Reaction to low uptake ...<br />Reaction is to “push” planted fodder through research and extension system<br />

This has had limited long-term success because....<br />Sustainable seed delivery mechanisms were not developed<br />Seed ...

An alternative is to foster small-scale entrepreneurs to develop forage seed businesses<br />This is also challenging beca...

Fodder seed production is risky<br />Feed is an intermediate commodity<br /><ul><li>Forage seed sector also suffers from b...

Other risk factors<br />Limited land available for seed production at any significant scale<br />Most forages are OPV’s an...

access to credit

access to land

limited business skills or experience

lack of basic/certified seed</li></li></ul><li>The way forward ... Research needs<br />A 6 point manifesto<br />

Point 1: Supply and demand study<br />Assess supply and demand for improved forages <br />This would support targeting of ...

Point 2: Forage seed demand assessment<br />Assess the extent and stability of demand for forage seed<br />Willingness to ...

Point 3: Identify institutional models<br />Identify different context-specific institutional models for forage seed suppl...

Point 4: Apply innovation systems approaches<br />Explore ways to link actors with relevant sources of knowledge e.g. thro...

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