senegal dairy genetics project: work package 2 update
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Presented by Karen Marshall at the FoodAfrica Annual Workshop, Kampala, Uganda, 27-28 January 2014TRANSCRIPT
Senegal Dairy Genetics project:Work package 2 update
Karen Marshall
FoodAfrica annual workshop, Kampala, Uganda27-28 January 2014
Work package partners & objectives
ILRI, EISMV, HU, MTT, project farmers
To identify and promote utilisation of the most appropriate dairy breed-types for more productive and profitable dairy enterprises in selected production systems in Senegal
Major activities 2013
1. Breed comparison Socio-economic study: gendered Major field component, 18 month monitoring Breed-type determined through genetic analysis 2 sites: region of Thies and department of Mbacké (Touba)
2. Analysis of policies on dairy, particularly germplasm production and delivery systems
3. Capacity building
Breed comparison: project sites
Field staff recruitment: 2 female and 4 male, mobilised by motorbikes(due to cultural / religious reasons could not place female staff at Touba)
Project sensitization in sites Survey to identify suitable dairy households: 623 households surveyed,288 identified as suitable (difficult to locate households as no complete list; lower number of cross-breeds than expected)
Recruitment of 259 dairy households into project: individual visits plus small group workshops; given project leaflet and signed consent
Project launch events (n=3): 135 male and 74 female participants, as individual dairy farmers and 11 organisations
Activities January to April 2013
Breed comparison: initiation
Project field staffThies site
Célestin Muyeneza (MSc in animal production, University of Dakar)
Ndeye Racky Ndiaye(MSc in population genetics, University of Dakar)
Touba site
Mame Diara Ndiaye (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, University of Dakar)
Mamadou Lo (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine,
University of Dakar)
Sene Moudou(Diploma of Livestock Production, CNFTEIA, St Louis)
Elhadji Sow (final year DVM, University of Dakar)
Farmer sensitisation activities
Project launch events
National & site level launch at Thies Ministers representative
Site level launch at Touba
Baseline survey: two survey tools – household head and adult female (259 households)(due to religious reasons unable to interview females in some households)
Longitudinal survey round 1: socio-economic + individual animal data; animals ear-tagged; each staff attached to ~40 households(virtual ear tags used when farmers did not allow tagging; ‘transhumant’ survey developed)
Longitudinal survey round 2: socio-economic + milk yield. Farmers trained in use of recording sheets and milk measuring(procurement difficulties for field equipment, esp. milk jugs)
Longitudinal survey round 3: socio-economic + milk yield (241 households)(implemented automated animal identification system in database; recapture of missing / incorrect data)
Activities April to December 2013
Breed comparison: socio-economic data
Ear tags
Project animals number 3100 with 670 lactating females, 105 different breed-types (Dec 2013)
Field staff working with project dairy farmers
Type of information collected on dairy households
Continual recording for 18 month+ period
Costs
• Labour • Feed + water• Health-care• Housing• Mating• Marketing• Replacement
animals• Equipment• Co-operative fees
Benefits
• Milk & milk products: sold or consumed
• Manure• Sale of dairy animals• Sale of sire services
Animal & herd level
• Animal information: breed, age, parity, last calving date, mating date, pregnancy status, date of birth, dry-off date
• Milk records• Entries into herd:
births, purchase etc.• Exits from herd:
deaths, sale etc.
Example survey table
Gendered information on all costs + benefits
Milk measuring
Body condition score: collected on all lactating females in selected survey rounds
Milk quality (protein and fat): obtained on 310 animals using field-based milk analyser
Body weights and body measurements
Hair samples for DNA analysis and subsequent breed composition: first 104 samples genotyped
Activities June to December 2013
Breed comparison: other data
Milk quality
Weights and body measurements
… but not always so easy
DNA samples
Preliminary SNP analysis results
104 animals: clusters represent the different breed-types
Data manaManagement of field data
Each field staff enters own survey data into CSPRO data entry interface Project database
manager, in Senegal
Data collation, data checking, back-up
Recollection of missing / erroneous data
MySQL database
User accessFarmer reports
Policy analysis
Generated via desk-top review combined with key informant interviews (in progress)
Capacity building: project farmers
Use of recording sheets, milk measurements
Domestic biogas, with Heifer International Senegal 9 training events 146 female and 366
male farmers
Farmer biogas training
Capacity building: field staff
Survey implementation + data -entry 4 training events of 5
days Trained by ILRI and
EISMV staff
Professor Missohou from EISMV supporting training of field staff
Capacity building: students
Program Country Gender
PhD Cameroon Male
PhD (attachment)
Nigeria Female
Masters Benin Male
Masters Finland Female
DMV thesis component
Senegal Male
Main challenges 2013
Unable to establish ILRI hosting arrangement in Senegal
High number of project activities (to compensate for time lost
due to project relocation)
Large volume of project data
… but excellent project team (n=23) & project partner relations
2014 work-plan
Completion of field-work (longitudinal surveys + DNA sampling)
Analysis of survey data Household clustering Breed assignment to individual animals + clustering Estimate of cost & benefits for each breed x household cluster (dependant on
group size) Socio-economic breed comparison
Further farmer trainings combined with feedback workshops
Policy and value-chain analysis
Support to project students
Additional activities e.g. aflatoxin & brucellosis testing, feed analysis
FoodAfrica supervisory board visit to project site
http://senegaldairy.wordpress.com/