PhD research: Towards a Sustainable Improvement of Milk Production for Smallholder Dairy Farming Systems in Tigray

Date
October 2015 to November 2023
Countries
Keywords
animal husbandery
animal production
Institutions
Mekelle University (Ethiopia)
Research fields
Agriculture and Food Sciences

Objective:

The overal objective of the proposed project is to contribute to the development of the potential of smallholder dairy farming in Tigray region, northern Ethiopia. To do so, research focuses on optimization of dairy cattle nutrition using local feed resources within a systemic context with climatological, social and economic constraints.