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Review on Challenges and Opportunities of Poultry Breeds

2018; Volume: 7; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.19080/jdvs.2018.07.555706

2573-2196

Fulas Hinsemu,

Agricultural Systems and Practices

Poultry production has important economic, social and cultural benefits and plays a significant role in family nutrition in the developing countries.It has been estimated that 80% of the poultry population in Africa are found in traditional scavenging system which makes substantial contributions to household food security throughout the developing world.Ethiopia has about 60 % of the total chicken population of East Africa, which includes local, exotic and hybrid chicken breeds.About 97% of the Ethiopian poultry population consists of indigenous chickens, while the remaining 3% consists of crossed and exotic breeds of chickens.All over the country, the indigenous chickens are an integral component of the livelihoods of most of rural, peri-urban, and some urban households and are likely to continue to meet this role for the foreseeable future.The indigenous chickens are characterized by slow growth, late maturity and low production performance.Due to these and other factors, there has been substantial efforts to introduce improved exotic chickens particularly introduction of Issa Brown (IB), Bovan Brown (BB), Babcock and dual-purpose hybrid Potchefstroom Koekoek (PK) breeds to the country by government and some Non-Governmental Organization with the aim of improving the existing indigenous breeds.Currently, Ethiopia is strengthening to increase facilities such as the animal health services, the training of beneficiaries in health and husbandry practice and on-and off-farm adaptive research on topics related to poultry production, being established of Poultry Multiplication and Distribution Centers and preparing supplying chain among the communities are the major best practices in improved poultry breed supply.Looking at the improved chicken supply model, the improved breeds are supplied by PMDC to Chicken growers, farmers or poultry farms, and Chicken growers take intermediate roles where they take day old chickens from the PMDC and then, sell them to farmers or farms after 40 days.However, the Ethiopian improved poultry breeds supply is still facing various challenges which constantly affect poultry farms and farmers.Therefore, the objective of this paper is to highlight the supply of improved poultry breeds supply and to discuss constraints in improved poultry breeds supply in Ethiopia.