| dc.description.abstract | The aim of the study was identify the strategies developed by livestock farmers to cope with feed scarcity in Entebbe Municipality. 60 livestock farmers were interviewed using a structured questionnaire. cattle and goat farmers mentioned feed scarcity as their major constraint (27.8%) while pig and chicken farmers mentioned high costs of feed as their major constraint (22.4%). strategies developed included; using food/crop waste(43.5%),harvesting natural forages(25.9%), purchase of feed ingredients in bulk(14.9%), change of feed resource based on availability and cost(12.6%) and reducing herd size (3.1%). | en_US |
