Beef cattle production and management
Practical Action
Community-based interventions to challenges facing farmers
Challenges by priority
1. Lack of technical know-how
2. Prevalence of diseases
3. Shortage of grazing
4. Poor markets
5. Scarce dipping facilities
6. Lack of water
Interventions
Farmers to organise training workshops
Farmers to face educational tours and
shows
To develop a community information
centre
Farmers to protect tsetse control
equipment from theft and vandalism
The Zimbabwe National Parks and
Wildlife Management Authority to prevent
wild animals from grazing in cattle
pastures
Farmers to form disease control
committees
Research should be conducted in the use
of traditional veterinary medicines
Setting up of veld fire committees
Practice conservation farming
Encourage and keep stover
Growing of leguminous trees
Avoid destruction of bruise trees
Develop supplementary feeds from local
resources
Organise markets for livestock and other
relevant committees
Farmers to create a marketing committee
and a Commodity Association that link
them to more demanding markets
Establishment of a veterinary medicine
outlet in the community
Reduction of the size of herd appropriate
to dip tank construction by authorities
Farmers to create microfinance
programmes to purchase veterinary
chemicals
Farmers to use carbaryl 85W on cattle to
control ticks by using cup # 22 in a 15-
litre Knapsack sprayer
Maintenance of boreholes through
Community-Based Management (CBM)
outlet in the community
Drilling boreholes and wells
Water harvesting
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