Review of durame dairy draught development (4-D) project

Abstract

The Durame Dairy/Draught Development (4-D) Project (Ethiopia) is a three-year project proposed jointly by ADRA-Ethiopia and ADRA-Norway for financing by NORAD. Subsequently, in the spring of 1997, the project was approved for funding by NORAD and CRDA-Ethiopia. Additional funding was also to be provided by ADRA-Ethiopia and the beneficiary farmers participating in the project. The total budget of the project is Birr 339,197.

Noragric, as advisors to NORAD, had made technical comments which had to be cleared at an initial stage of implementation. The technical comments focussed on aspects of zero grazing, the feasibility of introducing improved fodder resources as well as the viability of some of the technical, institutional and economic assumptions made to introduce and sustain dairy/draught purpose cattle, in the traditional intensive small-holder mixed farming system.