Djibouti Livestock: In a critical situation

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Djibouti Livestock: In a critical situation

 

 

(SomalilandPress)–Years of drought have had a dramatic impact on the overall health of the herds deteriorated significantly. Pastoralists and agro pastoralists have suffered combined losses of livestock, estimated between 70% and 80%.

 

The latest drought is a continuation of previous similar disasters, the most severe were probably those of the years 2006 and 2008. Note that these were spread over a period of four to five years with tangible results in a rainfall deficit. The predictable result: the production of lambs is already lost because of rain delays.

 

In this regard, farmers are alarmed by the deterioration of their potential for sustainable sheep production shrinking. Even the hardiest goats are proven durable and survivors are overstretched by eyewitness accounts gathered by investigators from the task of evaluating the impact of drought in all regions of the country.

 

Camels are also severely affected with an important mortality rate and embrittlement. The finding highlights the lack of sufficient veterinary coverage in recent years.

 

The most common diseases in livestock are diarrhea, eye diseases, pneumonia and external parasites.

 

To cause the device for training and equipment, small equipment and veterinary products, livestock auxiliaries from local communities has only worked a short time because of normal replacement of supplies and veterinary vitamins.

 

Worse, the lack of rain in most parts of the country has increased the pressure on scarce pasture resources available. The lower rainfall areas transhumant attract more and more remote including border with overgrazing and water points still available. The movement of animals to areas more remote promote the spread of transboundary diseases.

 

Under all these considerations, the assessment mission anticipates, already a massive influx of rural populations to urban centers. This is the renewal of the scenario of the year 2008 if the critical situation prevailing in the livestock sector, persists.