DAIRY HERD TYPE, STRUCTURE, AND MANAGENIENT PRACTICFS IN THE GEZIEA SCHEME

Abstract

DAIRY HERD TYPE, STRUCTURE, AND MANAGENIENT PRACTICFS IN THE GEZIEA SCHEME

A. M. I. BADI. National Dairy Research Centre,.P.O. Bax 28 WadMadaniSau!.'1, Sudan. 

SUMMARY 

The study was conducted on l02 herds in the Barakat area of the 
Middle Region of’ the Gezira Scheme in 1986 to classify the types of dairy 
animals. Kcnana, Butana and Cross - bred types accounted for 77.7,l2.7 and 
9.6 % of the population , respectively. The typical herd structure was 59.0 
‘X, cows, l‘l.9 ‘X , dry heifers, l l.l Z, heifer calves, 9.5% bull calves and 2.5 ‘Z 
bulls. Milking cows rcprcscntcd 20. 5% of the total ecws in the herd. Full - 
time farmers accounted for 72.9 ‘X, of the herd owners and 84.5% of the 
total were members of the Gezira Dairy Cooperative Society. Some 66.3 ‘Z, 
ofth: total milk from numbers farms was supplied to the Coop. In the study 
herds sheep and goats represented l6.l and l3.5% respectively.