This Strategy provides for strengthening livestock sub-sector as one of the major agricultural activities in the country that is contributing toward achieving food and nutrition security, supply of food products of animal origin, manure, and biogas, in order to improve livestock farming communities. The vision of the Strategy is that the livestock sub-sector should be, by 2029, sustainable and globally competitive, taking into consideration the environment conservation through improved professional farming practices, improved genetics, animal health and nutrition. The mission of the livestock sub-sector is to ensure that the livestock sub-sector is developed and managed sustainably by creating an enabling environment and producing high quality animal products while providing services that increase productivity, value addition, market access and income generation. The overall objective of the livestock development strategy is the development of a competitive and more efficient livestock sub-sector that contributes adequately to the improvement of the wellbeing of the Rwandan people. The Strategy also specifies targeted objectives, aligned with the pillars settled by the Ministry for livestock development. There are four pillars: 1) modernisation of animal resources production and promotion of food and nutrition security; 2) development of inclusive livestock market systems for increased incomes; 3) strengthening the systemic enablers; 4) promoting digitalisation, climate change mitigation and adaptation in livestock sub-sector. The Strategy concerns: livestock production and productivity features: land, water and pastures; dairy cattle productivity; beef cattle productivity; productivity of small ruminants; productivity of poultry; productivity of pigs; livestock products supply (milk, meat, eggs, hides and skins); livestock sub-sector export productivity; status of livestock health in the country. According to the pillars, the Strategy describes targeted interventions and actions to sustain the production of animal products and consistently ensure the increased productivity to farmers and other actors in the livestock sub-sector: improving breeds performance and breeding practices; improving animal husbandry and production systems, with zero grazing interventions in animal husbandry systems, forage seeds systems, and shed construction; establishing modern livestock infrastructures, with farm machinery, cleaned water distribution, tanks, boreholes, irrigation schemes for forage production; improving animal nutrition with the main focus on feeds and feeding practices, investment in storage and marketing of concentrates and feed supplements, best feeding practices, research directed towards utilisation of marshlands and livestock-crop integration systems; improving animal health services that mainly will focus on veterinary services, animal welfare in animal production and transportation, surveillance, mapping and diseases control interventions, research and production of safe, effective and affordable veterinary vaccines, use of veterinary drugs; post-harvest handling practices that focus on investment in animal products processing, transportation and commercialisation, reduction of post-harvest losses; safety and quality of livestock species and products, application of quality standards, inspection, certification of animal products; promoting domestic consumption of nutritious animal source foods; promoting investment along each targeted value chains that include multipliers of forage seed and distribution of seeds to small scale farmers; establishment of private animal health services delivery; public private partnership (PPP) in utilisation of government available grazing land and livestock infrastructures; improving activities related to breeding strategy and practices; defining standards and formulation of commercial feed; regulations for veterinary profession, drugs and pharmaceutical supply and distribution/usage; strengthening research, innovation and extension services that focus on activities and interventions related to development of training manuals for young, women and farmers. The Strategy defines the following relevant terms: agro-industrial wastes; artificial insemination; biosecurity; biotechnology; crop residues; crossbreeding; dairy value chain; exotic breeds; extension services; genetic materials; livestock support services; local breed; milk product; One Health approach; transboundary diseases; veterinary services; veterinary drugs; zoonosis.
卢旺达 · 2024-01-01