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A study led by Lancaster University has found that adopting high yield dairy cattle breeds and improving feed could help Tanzania increase milk production, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and alleviate poverty. The research, published in Nature Food, suggests that by changing from local to improved breeds of cattle and feeding them more nutritious, locally produced feed, Tanzania could meet its climate commitments and self-sufficiency targets in milk production. The study also highlights the need for support policies to prevent a decrease in income for farmers who cannot invest in feed and care for higher yielding cattle.
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Adopting high yield dairy cattle breeds and improving feed would allow Tanzania to increase milk production, while reducing planet warming greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and alleviating poverty, a new study reveals. Tanzania has the second largest dairy herd in East Africa with 28 million cows. However, its dairy sector is poorly developed with mainly small-scale farms stocked with low-yielding breeds, using poor quality feeds. This, along with other supply chain problems around handling and refrigeration, results in poor productivity and the need to import processed dairy products leading to a $23 million trade deficit.A new research paper from an international team of researchers led by Lancaster University scientists and published in Nature Food is the first to find evidence that breeding higher yielding dairy cattle offers significant potential to help Tanzania to reduce its dependency on foreign food imports ...
Source: Phys
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