Field AI Delivery System

to Enhance Dairy & Beef

Production in

SNNPRS

Opportunity/Potential

•Huge cattle Population CSA :- total population 10,543,129 /21% from the national/ out of these 4,358,111 are cow & heifer /with the age of 3 – 10 year/

•Liquid nitrogen producing plants in the region, /two/•Around 300 trained AI technicians,• In some areas relatively better awareness of the farmers to accept the AI service /but not in all cases/

•Relatively better animal health service facility, /One Animal health expert to three PA`s in most cases/

•High demand for animal products,/Nationally & Internationally/

(due to Economical growth & related cases)

•Current policies & strategies seeking for the overall development of the sector,/Organization structure/

•Most of the areas are suitable to implement AI activity/Including some pastoralist areas/

What we Achieve to date with these Potential;

Achievements in the past two YearsActivities Unit Achievements

2002 E.C Performance %

2003 E.C

Performance

%

Total Insemination no 55039 97.2 32400 58.7

Calf born from insemination no 14436 59 11000 54.2

Distribution of liquid nitrogen Lit 28914 72.3 36495 91.2

Semen distributed Dose 59445 99 77765 129.6

The achievements were so minimal as compared to the potential in the Region, there are some bottlenecks for this;

Main Bottleneck`s•Lack of appropriate input provision strategy, /specially liquid nitrogen & semen/

•Frequent transfer of AI technicians to seek better alternatives, ( 300 trained but 159 are available on job)

•No constant supply of insemination equipment,•Low conception rate of the inseminated cow/heifer, ( conception rate is averagely around 3)

•Absent of incentives for the Inseminators

•Low Performance of AI technicians, One technician inseminate on average 170 – 210 cow per year which is very low

• Absence of logistic to facilitate field AI service mostly the service was delivered at stationed level, /lack of motorcycle/

•Lack of refreshment training to AI technicians, /specially for the last 3 Years/

•Less attention was given to animal feed,

• Less focus on appropriate & timely data collection,• Technical gap to select the appropriate breed (Mostly focus on HF)•Marketing related problems,•Lack of coordination among experts, livestock production , AI technicians, Animal

health experts, Development Agents, Input providers, ….

•Technicians were assigned to perform out of their responsibility,/on other activities/

2004 E.c. PlanActivities Unit Plan

Total Insemination No 135,000

Calves from insemination No 65,742

Distribution of liquid nitrogen Li 40000

Distribution of semen Dose 145000

Service per conception no 2 & 1.75

Strategies to Achieve the plan

•Timely & properly distribution of input /liquid nitrogen & semen …/, to facilitate this :- purchase of two truck with necessary equipments, designing of two appropriate distribution roots & monthly distribution of input takes among the producer & the AI technician at regular bases

•Provision of motorbike, two motorbike to each woreda /totally 230 motorbike/, so the service transform to rotational bases, This improve the performance of Experts & the service will be delivered at a minimum distance /that was an advantageous for the farmers/

•Training of 80 additional AI technician`s•Refreshment training• Facilitating AI technician training center•Improving the reporting mechanism /training, integrating the input distribution with report collection/

Thank You!!