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The measures which would be adopted to solve the above problems
i. Introduce and encourage irrigation for the growing of crops to supplement their diet as well as serving as fodder crops to increase the pasture.
ii. Provide formal education so as to extend better techniques of cattle-keeping.
iii. Introduce Cross Breeding and selective breeding.
iv. Effective disease control by treating the animals. For example through dipping, spraying and vaccinating. Also destroying habitats for tsetse flies by clearing bushes and spraying insecticides.
v. Observing a carrying capacity of land by reducing the large number of animals through paddocking and rotational grazing.
vi. Centralise the marketing of meat so as to earn the government foreign exchange.
vii. Increase and improve on the pasture by introducing such cattle feeds as bone meal salt for licking and cattle cakes. Also carrying out grass seeding and growing drought resistant grasses to be used as fodder crops to supplement the natural pastures.
viii. To use chemical fertilizers on the grasslands so as to improve the soils and hence facilitate the growing of crops and good pastures.
ix. Encouraging herders to sell off the surplus and their products so as to acquire cash.
x. Improve the transport by building roads and railways in the pastoral areas.
xi. To reduce long distances to the drinking water holes by providing permanent water points like boreholes, taps, valley tanks and earth dams. The long distances to the marketing centres should be reduced by establishing slaughter houses and freezing plants in the pastoral areas so that only the animal products can be transported over long distances to the markets but not live animals.
xii. The government should grant loans to the farmers so as to improve on the methods of rearing animals.
xiii. Encourage the farmers to form co-operative societies so as to ease the marketing and processing of animal products.
xiv. Establish research centres so as to improve on disease control and pasture quality.
xv. Establish demonstration schools to teach scientific and modern methods of farming to the farmers.
ii. Provide formal education so as to extend better techniques of cattle-keeping.
iii. Introduce Cross Breeding and selective breeding.
iv. Effective disease control by treating the animals. For example through dipping, spraying and vaccinating. Also destroying habitats for tsetse flies by clearing bushes and spraying insecticides.
v. Observing a carrying capacity of land by reducing the large number of animals through paddocking and rotational grazing.
vi. Centralise the marketing of meat so as to earn the government foreign exchange.
vii. Increase and improve on the pasture by introducing such cattle feeds as bone meal salt for licking and cattle cakes. Also carrying out grass seeding and growing drought resistant grasses to be used as fodder crops to supplement the natural pastures.
viii. To use chemical fertilizers on the grasslands so as to improve the soils and hence facilitate the growing of crops and good pastures.
ix. Encouraging herders to sell off the surplus and their products so as to acquire cash.
x. Improve the transport by building roads and railways in the pastoral areas.
xi. To reduce long distances to the drinking water holes by providing permanent water points like boreholes, taps, valley tanks and earth dams. The long distances to the marketing centres should be reduced by establishing slaughter houses and freezing plants in the pastoral areas so that only the animal products can be transported over long distances to the markets but not live animals.
xii. The government should grant loans to the farmers so as to improve on the methods of rearing animals.
xiii. Encourage the farmers to form co-operative societies so as to ease the marketing and processing of animal products.
xiv. Establish research centres so as to improve on disease control and pasture quality.
xv. Establish demonstration schools to teach scientific and modern methods of farming to the farmers.