In March 2024, animal scientists from the University will travel to Tanzania to launch a pilot project of cattle that will produce 10 times more milk than indigenous Tanzanian cattle. The Tanzania ...

Five generations of crosses result in cattle capable of producing 10 liters of milk per day under typical Tanzanian management, blasting past the half-liter average yield of indigenous cattle.

ARUSHA, Tanzania (AlertNet) - As recurring drought afflicts much of East Africa’s drylands, the Tanzanian government is trying to save the livelihoods of traditional herders by giving them free ...

A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania: cows that produce up to 20 times the milk ...

Tanzania has the second largest dairy herd in East Africa with 28 million cows. However, its dairy sector is poorly developed with mainly small-scale farms stocked with low-yielding breeds, using ...

Tanzania's cattle population has increased to 30.5 million (cows) in 2016/17 compared with 25.8 million recorded in the previous financial year, latest survey whose preliminary findings were ...

It is a reprieve as more than 500 cows that were seized by the Tanzania government are returned following negotiation with the Kenya Government The cows belonging to a Kenyan herder, Ole Saisa ...

When a group of elderly Tanzanian women asked Martha Daud to start circumcising girls 30 years ago, she was honored as it meant she would earn money, status and choice cuts of meat.

A team of animal scientists from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is set to deliver a potential game changer for subsistence farmers in Tanzania: cows that produce up to 20 times the ...