{"id":3221,"date":"2019-06-20T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"uganda-dairy-sector-performing-below-full-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/20\/uganda-dairy-sector-performing-below-full-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Dairy Sector Performing Below Full Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By HALIMA ABDALLAH<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ugandan\ndairy farmers are producing 2.4 billion litres of milk annually instead of 10\nbillion due to livestock diseases, low uptake of high grade exotic cattle, a\nhigh rate of failure for artificial insemination, limited access to extension\nservices and limited investments in feed resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A\nreport by the Economic Policy Research Centre, based on investigations into\nlivestock production practices and milk productivity, reveals that farmers\ncould be making $300 million more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nreport shows that most farmers in western Uganda who initially embraced exotic\nbreeds are reverting to local Ankole cattle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An\nexotic breed can produce up to 40 litres of milk per day compared with just\nthree litres from local breeds\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/Uganda-dairy-sector-performing-below-full-potential\/2560-5163078-cimaudz\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By HALIMA ABDALLAH Ugandan dairy farmers are producing 2.4 billion litres of milk annually instead of 10 billion due to livestock diseases, low uptake of high grade exotic cattle, a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}