Livestock Production in Central Mali: Long-term Studies on Cattle and Small Ruminants in the Agropastoral SystemILCA has been conducting a long-term study on livestock production in central Mali since the beginning of 1976. This report presents results based on data collected over a 6-year period from 1978 to mid-1984. In part I the livestock production systems in the zone, management practices and herd and flock demography are described. Cattle and small ruminant productivity is discussed in detail in parts II and III and recommendations based on the results of the studies are given in part IV. |
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agricultural agropastoral system analysis of variance animals annual reproductive rate areas average breeding females Burkina Faso calf calves born calving interval castrates cattle central Mali correlations cows crop cultivation dams flock floodplain Fulani goats and sheep goats in central Goats Sheep Gourma-Rharous herds hot dry season incisors inundation zone isohyet lactation Least-squares means litter livestock Liveweight kg Macina sheep males Malian mature weight Mauritania maximum milk millet subsystem months Mopti mortality moutons Niger river Niono Nioro du Sahel offtake overall owners oxen Parity parturition interval Percentage period Post-rains postpartum weights preweaning production systems productivity indices rainfall Rains reproductive performance rice subsystem Sahel second parturitions Ségou sheep and goats Sheep Goats sheep in central shown in Figure shown in Table significant difference significant effect slaughtered small ruminants Source of variation species tion transhumant Tuareg Type of birth Variable groups village weaning