Indigenous Goat Production Systems in Selected Districts of Wester Amhara, Ethiopia (original) (raw)

Introduction: Smallholder farmers predominate in developing countries and they are entirely dependent on agriculture for their livelihoods (Dixon et al., 2001). About three fourth of the poor in developing countries live in rural areas and two-thirds of the rural people in these countries keep livestock (Owen et al., 2005). In Ethiopia, more than 85% of the human population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods (Solomon Abegaz, 2014) and usually keep livestock as pastoralists or in mixed crop livestock systems. The livestock population of Ethiopia is currently estimated to be 53.99 million cattle, 25.5 million sheep, 24.06 million goats, 6.75 million donkeys, 1.91 million horses, 0.35 million mules and 0.92 million camels excluding nomadic areas and is diverse genetically. Goats aged two Years and older accounts about 51.44%; among

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