THE FUTURE OF LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT IN EGYPT FROM PERSPECTIVE OF CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Animal Production Department, National Research Center (NRC), Dokki, Giza, Egypt.

Abstract

Livestock development in Egypt faces a set of current and future challenges that limit the desired development events in        this vital sector of agriculture, and the most important challenges can be summarized as follows:
-  Lack of available fodder resources needed to cover the nutritional needs of farm animals
-  Decreased productive qualities of local farm animals.
-  Low productivity of local farm animal.
-  Improving the health and reproductive health of farm animals and limiting the spread of epidemic and imported             diseases.
-  Climate changes and the limited water resources available.

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