AGRICULTURAL NEWS - This was according to Asaah Ndambi, senior international animal production specialist at the Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen) in the Netherlands.
Ndambi was speaking at the 13th Africa Dairy Conference and Exhibition recently held in Johannesburg.
Ndambi explained that improving farm productivity was the best way to mitigate dairy sector GHG emissions.
In 2015 and 2017, Theun Vellinga, senior reseacher at Wageningen’s Livestock Research Institute, conducted a study to assess cost-effective interventions that could increase production, while decreasing GHGs in Ethiopia.
It was found that most GHG emissions were caused by feed production and enteric fermentation.
The study then calculated the effect of multiple cost-efficient interventions.
