This course and related exercises practices are designed to equip students with a broad and integrated understanding of the established principles of Animal genetic genetics resources management, with the ability to design, implement and evaluate a specific animal breeding and production program.
This module is taught to year 3 Animal Production Students.
Ruminant Animal Production is designed to provide students with a general concept and understanding of the husbandry and management principles of ruminant animals for production purposes.
Geoscience (also called Earth Science) is the study of Earth. Knowledge in earth science will raise the awareness of students in animal production on the importance of the interactions between humans, farm animals, large-scale agriculture, and the Earth. This includes issues of land use and different ways in which the environment of earth can affect animal production.
This module is taught to year 3 students so as to understand livestock value chain analysis, marketing analysis of animal products, institutional analysis and the reason behind their organization, relationships between different levels of analysis. This will help the student to have knowledge and skills to analyze themselves the animal product value chains, classify and characterize the markets and analyze new institutional economics and comparative political economy, with a focus both on the basic theory and on contemporary empirical research. The students will be able to use the analysis methods discussed along with all units. They will also be able to identify the constraints and opportunities and proposing market-based solutions for development in the market and marketing of animal products.