Improving Farmer Livelihoods by Developing Market-Orientated Small Ruminant Production Systems in Myanmar Lex 34202

Abstract

This project aims to improve the livelihood of farmers in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar who keep goats and sheep by increasing the productivity and profitability of their herds and flocks. The Central Dry Zone is home to 14.5 million people and is vital to the nation’s production of livestock and dryland crops. Most rural people in the area are smallholder and landless farmers who largely depend on agriculture, cropping and/or livestock, for their livelihoods. The project seeks to improve smallholders’ understanding of key performance drivers of small ruminant production and their ability to control them. This will be achieved by participatory evaluation of specific animal nutrition, produ..