Digital platform enhances genetic progress in community-based sheep and goat breeding programs in Ethiopia
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Digital platform enhances genetic progress in community-based sheep and goat breeding programs in Ethiopia:
- Up-to-date information on estimated breeding values and animal rankings is directly channeled to breeder organizations and used for selection decisions.
- The digital platform motivated use of more complicated evaluation models which improve accuracy of breeding values considerably.
- When upscaled, this will help create a permanent multi-country source of information.
Publication year:
2020
Keywords:
Digital platform
Ethiopia
Information
Breeding programs