Journal of Animal Sciences and Livestock Production Acesso livre

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Challenges of Livestock Productivity and Market System of the Pastoralists in Borena Zone, Southeast, Ethiopia

Elema Jateni*

This research paper deals with the study of livestock production in Southeast Ethiopia, Oromia, Gujii zone, particularly in liben worked. A purposive method of sampling was used to select the study area and simple random sampling was used to choose 35 respondents from 700 household from the of study area. To generate the required data, different methodological approach’s used such as: questionnaire, interview, and focus group discussions. The data were analyzed and interpreted in both qualitative and quantitative methods. The finding indicated that the major problem in the area that affect and reduce livestock production are shortage of feed, shortage of water, poor infrastructure, lack of veterinary serves, drought and disease. This all the above mentioned factors are highly affected livestock production in the study area. the livestock market also affected by different things such as lack of market information, seasonality of supply and demand, and taxation the main livestock market problem in the study area. Finally, it is recommended to mitigating this problem, the recombination like expanding veterinary service, improving infrastructure, provide practical training to farmers on feeding management system and expansion of water supply.