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Swine production systems
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The study was carried out to characterize the production systems, feeding & slurry management, herd administration, cost determinants and constraints of Ethiopian swine farming. A total of 66 swine farms were selected in six major towns to collect quantitative and qualitative data on the studied parameters. A multi-stage sampling procedure was empl...
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... the small and medium scale producers, a number of large scale producers were practicing an intensive swine management system. Among all the producers, only two of them had an extensive management system where pigs spent all their days on the field and didn't get any supplementary feeds (Table 1). In agreement with our findings, a semi-intensive production system was reported as a pre-dominant type of swine management in Uganda and Botswana (Montsho and Moreki, 2012;Muhanguzi et al., 2012). ...
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... iven for the sector. The swine is the most neglected sector in the Ethiopia livestock agriculture. Unlike other livestock distribution, swine farms are restricted to central part of the country near Addis Ababa. Few assessments has been made on the disease, production aspects and constraints and economic contribution of swine (Berihu & Tamir, 2015;Z. Goraga et al., 2016;Kasa et al., 2020) There is poor public awareness on its socio-economic advantages. Furthermore, most livestock producers in Ethiopia don't have keen interest to invest in swine sector compared with their interest to invest in other livestock sectors, and this could be partly associated with the lack of functional marketing systems for l ...
Urban agriculture assessment report for Addis Ababa city.
... In agreement, poor market linkage is one of the constraints in north western Ethiopia (Mekuriaw and Asmare, 2014). Lack of market and government policy are the major production constraints of swine producers in Ethiopia (Goraga et al., 2016b). Pork retailers prioritized accordingly the possible intervention options to improve pork marketing in Ethiopia (Table 11). ...
... across the three scales of retailers. The overall might agree with Goraga et al. (2016b) report where they stated that the better satisfaction of large scale swine producers in Ethiopia might be a better access for pork processing plants and market networking but the dissatisfaction of small and medium scale pig producers might be mainly attributed to lack of access for processing plants and markets to sell their live pigs. ...
The study was conducted to characterize pork and pork products marketing and challenges in Ethiopia. Multistage random sampling procedure was applied to select a total of 40 pork retailers from six towns. Structured questionnaire was used to collect information through face to face interview. Pork retailers were clustered into three categories as small scale (sell <5kg pork per day), medium scale (sell 5-10kg pork per day) and large scale (sell >10kg pork per day) based on quantities of pork selling per day. Collected data were analyzed using appropriate statistical procedures of SAS and SPSS software packages. The result showed that the quantity of pork products sold per day was too small. About 61.5, 15.4 and 23.1% of pork retailers were selling <5, 5-10 and >1 kg of pork products per day in small, medium and large scale retailers, respectively. In most cases, pork was sold in the form of mortadella, sausage and salami. In addition to pork selling, almost all of the pork retailers were selling one or more other meat types such as beef, mutton, goat meat, fish and chicken. About 92.3% of the pork retailers were selling both beef and chicken meat, and 79.5, 48.7 and 10.3% of them were selling fish, mutton, and goat meat, respectively. The average price (followed by SE) of a kilo gram of pork was 162(6.3), 164(4.0) and 172(6.0) Ethiopian Birr (ranging 7.5 to 8 USD per kg of pork) in small, medium and large scale pork retailers, respectively. The presence of few pork consumers, lack of formal central markets and public complain against pork consumption were the major challenges observed in pig and pork marketing value chain. In concussion, the findings of this study will improve awareness on existing pork marketing systems in Ethiopia and provide valuable information that can support future interventions aiming to solve key challenges in the market value chain.
... Although the swine sector has not been well advanced in African countries like in Ethiopia, it has the potential to contribute to the food security and create job opportunities especially for the poor farming communities (Petrus et al., 2011;Amills et al., 2013;Tekle et al, 2013;Berihu et al., 2015;Birhan et al., 2015;Goraga et al., 2015;Greve, 2015;Adeoye et al., 2016;Goraga et al., 2016). ...
... Most of the previous studies conducted in Ethiopia and other African countries such as Namibia, Nigeria, and Uganda provided valuable information on pigs' production systems and health information (Petrus et al., 2011;Amills et al., 2013;Tekle et al, 2013;Berihu et al., 2015;Birhan et al., 2015;Goraga et al., 2015;Greve, 2015;Adeoye et al., 2016;Goraga et al., 2016), however, relatively fewer studies were conducted on marketing aspects of the swine sector in Africa (Pieterse et al., 2000;AJala and Adesehinwa, 2008;Ogunniyi et al., 2011;Montsho and Moreki, 2012;Levy et al., 2013;Kambashi et al., 2014;Levy et al., 2014;Mary-Juliet et al., 2014;Berihu and Tamir, 2016;Kimbi and Lekule, 2016). In Ethiopia, almost no information is available on pigs' marketing aspects, except little information provided by few authors (Berihu and Tamir, 2016). ...
... across the three scales of production. According to the findings of this study, people from other nationalities such as America, Europe and other African counties didn't involve in live pigs marketing in Ethiopia, however, as reported previously by Goraga et al (2016), these group of people actively involved in pork and pork products purchasing and consumption in Ethiopia (Goraga et al., 2016). ...
The study presented valuable information on live pigs' marketing, buyers' characteristics, purpose of buying pigs, partnerships among market actors, trend of swine business and motivational drivers in swine sector of Ethiopia. A total of 66 swine farms were selected in six major towns to collect quantitative and qualitative data on the studied parameters. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select sampling areas and respondents. A standardized questionnaire was used to collect the data using person to person interview. Data were analyzed using appropriate statistical procedures of SPSS. On average 10, 40 and 163 pigs per farm per year were sold in small, medium and large scales of production, respectively, and this was statistically significant (P<0.05) across the three scales of production. Brokers (40%), people in informal market (20%) and owners of nearby farms (14.5%) were the main buyers of live pigs in Ethiopia. The study revealed that the main purposes of buying live pigs in Ethiopia were for reselling and/or production. About 80.4% of the interviewed swine producers had no partnership with buyers, i.e. they were independent and met just on spot market. The involvement of foreigners in pigs' production chain was much higher (54.5%) than their involvement in processing (11.4%) and marketing (34.1%) chains in Ethiopia. According to the findings of the study, a positive trend for swine business was observed in Ethiopia. 45.2% of the respondents did show an interest to continue their business with an increasing level of production. Key information obtained from this study can be used to develop strategies aiming to improve live pigs' marketing in the country.
This narrative was made to determine the different factors in raising Pigs: breeds, environment, biosecurity, health, and management practices. Approaching the sow or gilt for breeding is safer and more practical by enhancing artificial breeding using new technology (artificial insemination), where you can select your desired quality varieties to be produced as needed, paying attention to performing activities from the pre-farrowing period up to the farrowing process. Inquiry is done in order to attain information and knowledge regarding the selected topic. The training pertaining to the selected topic, which is swine management, was limited to some parts of the technology; thus, personal experience alone might not be a hundred percent reliable source of information. For this, inquiries while in training were performed in terms of casual conversation with the supervising officer or station trainer and technician in the production of pork (swine meat) here in the country might result into an importation, which will negatively affect our backyard or small-scale swine producers. Decrease in production is highly contributed by factors such as environment, breeds as well as mismanagement, thus, it is an imperative to strictly implement standard management practices. Moreover, given the environmental factors such as disease occurrence, sanitation and proper management practices will help avoid or at least minimize disease incidence in our local swine farms.
The potential of pig production to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers is constrained by inadequate use of pig production technologies. Technologies like the use of artificial insemination (AI) to improve breeds have been suggested to improve pig production. Pig production in Northern Uganda, however, remains low suggesting limited use of such technologies. Three technologies (Indigenous Microorganism (IMO) technology, artificial insemination and use of feed formula from dominant locally available feedstuffs) were introduced to the smallholder farmers in Gulu and Omoro districts of northern Uganda. Prior to implementation, however, it necessitated that the status of pig production among farmers be established against which the impact of the initiative to introduce these technologies will be assessed. This paper therefore aimed at determining the status of pig production in northern Uganda. A cross-sectional survey was carried out among 109 purposively selected pig farmers recruited to participate in technology implementation. 59.6% were males, aged between 36-64 years (53.2%), married (78%), with household size of 7-9 members (42.2%), had attained primary education (58.7%) and had 1-5 acres of land (54.1%). The average herd size was 4.6 pigs with 67.4% farmers keeping local pigs. Piglets dominated the herds in both districts with 89% farmers keeping pigs as the main livestock species. Income generation was the primary reason for keeping pigs. Piggery was constrained by expensive feeding (82.6%) and diseases (47.7%). 93.6% farmers fed pigs on local feedstuffs with no definite formula, 59.6% housed their pigs but none used either artificial insemination or indigenous microorganism technologies. In conclusion, there exists limited knowledge on, and use of the three technologies. There is therefore need to train farmers on these technologies and later assess their acceptance and adoption, and their impact on status of pig production.
The study was undertaken to characterize breed features, reproductive performance, breeding practice, breed selection criteria and herd replacement in Ethiopian swine production systems. A total of 66 swine farms were selected in six major towns to collect quantitative and qualitative data on the studied parameters. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select sampling areas and respondents. A standardized questionnaire was used to collect the data using person to person interview. Data were analyzed using appropriate statistical procedures of SAS and SPSS software packages. The study revealed that Ethiopian swine breeds had diverse coat colors where white coat color was the predominant one. Average reproductive performances of swine herds for age at first puberty, litter size and gestation length were ranged from 9-10 (months), 8-10 (piglets per farrowing) and 3 to 3.5 (months), respectively. None of these reproductive performances were significant (P>0.05) across the three scales of production. About 76-86% of the total interviewed swine producers did select sires and dams for breeding. Dams section was mainly based on health status, body conformation and mothering ability; whereas, sires selection was based on health status, body conformation and coat color. Findings of this study can support the development of breeding strategies aiming to improve Ethiopian swine production and productivity.
