List the measures Taken By the Government to Improve Pastoral Farming.

      

List the measures Taken By the Government to Improve Pastoral Farming.

  

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Kavungya
a) Encouraging pastoralists through the ministry of livestock to start ranching in order to improve the quality of their animals.
b) Improvement of water supply in drier areas by sinking boreholes, wells, construction of dams, etc.
c) Establishment of demonstration ranches to sensitize pastoralists on better methods of animal husbandry.
d) Construction of cattle dips, and setting animal pest and disease organisations to control pests and diseases.
e) Providing extension services to advice pastoralists and offer drug treatment to animals.
f) Teaching pastoralists through formal education about advantages of keeping manageable sizes of herds.
g) Encouraging them to keep smaller number of animals to solve the problem of quality.
h) Ploughing and resowing pasture with more nourishing drought resistant grass.
i) Purchasing pedigree animals and cross breeding with indigenous animals resulting in hybrid stock which is able to resist many tropical diseases, give more milk and better quality meet.
Kavungya answered the question on May 3, 2019 at 10:37


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