The objectives of this study were to identify the breeding Begaria cattle keepers. A semi-structured questionnaire, live animal ranking, and focus group discussions employed farmers. was conducted on a total 75 conveniently sampled households. Among population households, 506 heads (252 male 254 female animals) ranked as first best, second third and/or worst animals. Owners asked choose animals...

INTRODUCTION Beef breeding programmes have developed significantly in the last 24 years since the 1 WCGALP. Breeding programs as defined here include the definition of breeding objectives, recording and genetic evaluation programs to develop selection criteria and developments in selection and mating technology to optimize genetic progress for the objective. Available today are tools for the im...

 Objectives to target: This relates to asking ‘Where to go?’, whereas Tools and Strategies below relate to ‘How to get there?’ Breeding objectives describe the type of animal that we might want to develop, or, more commonly, describe the utility of marginal genetic changes in each trait of commercial value. However, there is increasing concern about loss of genetic diversity, both within and b...

The aim of this study was to define breeding goals and determine the suitable selection index in Rayeni cashmere goat using simulated data. To select animals for increased quantity of meat, milk and cashmere produced, body weight of the doe (BWD), milk weight (MW), cashmere weight (CW), weight of kids for sale (WK) and number of kids for sale per doe (NK) was used as selection criteria. Four se...

The history of the modern oat may be traced to its intergeneric contamination wheat and barley in southwest Asia, particularly Mesopotamia due use only forage crop rather than a staple food most countries it’s been neglected. There are just few economically cultivated species this self-pollinated crop, including A. sativa, nuda, byzantina. After rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, barley, production c...

The economical mechanisms involved in the utilization of genetic gain. The last network expands the system under consideration to the whole agricultural system and society. Obviously the development of breeding objectives is an activity where several advantageous features of a systems analysis approach can be utilized. There seems to be and immediate need for development of computational method...

Coffea arabica L. belongs to the Rubiaceae family, and genus is believed have a primary center of origin genetic variability in highlands southwestern Ethiopia. It vital beverage commodity across world valuable export product, ranking second international trade after petroleum. Ethiopia among top five major coffee-producing countries Africa’s leading producer. However, its full production capac...