Author(s)

Dié Xavier Millogo^1,2, Timbilfou Kiendrebeogo^1,3,4, Salam Richard Kondombo⁴, Salifou Ouédraogo⁵, Aboubacar Toguyeni¹, Luc Hippolyte Dossa⁶, Logténé Youssofou Mopaté⁷, Chantal-Yvette Kabore-Zoungrana⁸

¹Laboratoire d’études et de Recherches sur les Ressources Naturelles et les Sciences de l’Environnement (LERNSE)/Université Nazi Boni, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
²Ministère de l’Agriculture, des Ressources Animales et Halieutiques (MARAH), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
³Laboratoire de Recherche en Production et Santé Animale (LRPSA)/Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
⁴Laboratoire Central D’Horticulture (LCH)/Institut de l’Environnement et de Recherches Agricoles (INERA), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
⁵Institut du Développement Rural (IDR)/Université Nazi Boni, Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.
⁶Département de Production Animale, Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques de l’Université d’Abomey-Calavi (Bénin), Cotonou, Benin.
⁷Institut de Recherche en élevage pour le Développement (IRED), Programme Production Animale et Environnement, N’Djamena, Tchad.
⁸Académie Nationale des Sciences des Arts et des Lettres (ANSAL-BF), Académie Africaine des Sciences (AAS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

Breeding and feeding practices were analyzed through field surveys of farmers in the Bobo-Dioulasso and Orodara areas. Fifty-four breeders identified with the support of technical services and breeders’ organizations were interviewed on the socio-demographic characteristics of the breeder, information on the farm, the conduct of the breeding activity, economic parameters and the main constraints of the activity. Confirmation of a k-means classification result by Discriminant Factorial Analysis (DFA) enabled us to retain 35 farmers out of the 54 surveyed. Breeding practices have been classified into three categories: Class 1, made up mainly of cattle fatteners; Class 2, made up of sheep fatteners and dairy farmers; and Class 3, made up of farmers practicing fattening (cattle and sheep) and dairy production. Feeding methods were grazing + supplementation, practiced by 56.17% of breeders, and rationing, practiced by 43.83%. All farmers used roughage, concentrates and minerals at varying rates according to class. Concentrates were used more in Class 3. Mango by-products were used by a minority of farmers. Cassava peelings were mainly used by farmers in Class 3 (87.5%) and Class 2 (12.5%). The number of cattle fattened per rotation was higher in Class 1 (28 animals) than in Class 3 (15 animals). According to the majority of farmers interviewed, fattening is a profitable activity. The profit margin per animal was higher in Class 3 (112,154.49 XOF) than in Class 1 (93,463 XOF). Despite all this, livestock farming is faced with food, commercial, health and technical constraints that hamper its development in the Bobo-Dioulasso and Orodara zones.

Breeding Practices, Mango Feed, Cassava Feed, Cattle and Sheep Fattening and Burkina Faso

Millogo, D. , Kiendrebeogo, T. , Kondombo, S. , Ouédraogo, S. , Toguyeni, A. , Dossa, L. , Youssofou Mopaté, L. and Kabore-Zoungrana, C. (2024) Breeding Practices and Use of By-Products Derived from Mango and Cassava in Cattle and Sheep Fattening in Western Burkina Faso. Open Access Library Journal, 11, 1-22. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1111228.