Kabuni Thomas
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Kabuni Thomas‘s profile was updated 5 years, 4 months ago
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Kabuni Thomas commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
Currently l have not come across with any African country with animal traceability programme which is in place working. For instance in Tanzania we have animal traceability policy but it is not yet practically well implemented and this is the problem of most of the African countries facing at the moment.
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Kabuni Thomas commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
Yes Karen there is great need of making sure breed composition determination, livestock traceability, and pathogen detection are in place within our livestock production systems. This is because our livestock products are banned from entering overseas markets simply they lack these information and we therefore fail to fully exploit the…[Read more]
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Kabuni Thomas commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
l agree that we have a potential genetic resources to be exploited from our livestock although we have not effectively exploited enough these potentials for the improvement of livestock productivity and livelihood of the poor rural farmers. The inability of these failures is contributed by a number of factors but the most important ones include;…[Read more]
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Kabuni Thomas commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
Thanks Baitsi you have said it well, however to my opinion ineffective application of genomic tools is constrained by inefficient breeding programmes and policies in our African countries and that is why it is difficult for the implementers to disseminate genomic technologies to our farmers, because farmers have not been hold accountably and been…[Read more]
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Kabuni Thomas commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
Among Animals’ Assisted Reproductive Technologies (AART) (eg. AI, MOET, Semen sexing, Gene cloning, etc.), AI stand to be the best way of applying genetic information due to its potentiality and positive impact to the poor rural African farmers. The uniqueness/specialities of AI as compared to other AART is that: The uptake of AI to farmers is…[Read more]
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Kabuni Thomas commented on the post, Using genomic information on cattle in Africa 5 years, 5 months ago
Best farmers have to be selected and get involved in any breeding programme to represent the rest of the farmers, also these projects have to located on-farm where farmers feel a sense of belonging/ownership and will effectively participate and cooperate to implement the objectives of the programme. Therefore, once the programme is successful it…[Read more]
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