Really appreciate the forum even though my contribution wasn’t much due to bad network in the area I’m living. In a nut shel we need an innovation platform for the African cattle and the issue of gene transfer should not be in place our animals has the potentials to do what ever we want and can be achieved through genomic selection as discussed previously.
NAPRI/ ABU is having a programme for local farmers to improve milk production through crossing fresian to Bunaji or white fulani since late 1960s and the success is much to explain their quite a lot of publications in line with that. NAPRI has Beef research programme, dairy research programme and Animal reproduction and artificial insemination…[Read more]
In line with the comment of Yakubu mojid, yes their quite some research work done on cattle genomics in Africa but when you take them into consideration they were all trying to characterise them into groups with little or no any work with objective or aim for improvement using molecular techniques.much of the research works done were more on…[Read more]