Factors Affecting the Adoption of Forage Technologies under Smallholder Dairy Production Systems in Tanzania
Presentation
70% of the world’s bovines belongs to LDCs, but they only produce 29% of the global meat and 23% of the global milk output (Jahnke et al. 1988).
Current demand for dairy products in Africa largely outweigh their production (Smith 2015; Lukuyu et al. 2009).
A comparative study showed a 4.0% demand growth rate against a 3.1% production growth rate of dairy products in SSA between 1990 and 2004 (Ndambi et al. 2007),
While, at the same period, Africa’s dairy imports grew at a rate of 2.1% per annum.
Numbers demonstrate that SSA’s dairy production potential is yet to be reached.