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Raising Camels For Meat Production

Although the indigenous dromedary camel (Carnelus drornedarius) has continued to be the sole source of food, transport, and income for hundreds of thousands of African nomads, its potential for increasing food supplies and family income has almost been ignored by planners of development projects in Sub-Sahara Africa.

There has been little institutional research effort given to improving camel productivity in Africa. There is sufficient evidence to indicate that the dromedary camel possesses practical and unique attributes for meat and milk production under intensive and extensive management in the arid and semiarid regions of Sub-Sahara Africa.

Moreover, increasing camel numbers should not contribute to further encroachment of the desert and human migration to urban settlements, two problems that have occurred when other livestock development projects have succeeded in increasing numbers of cattle, sheep, or goats.


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