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TEAM BUILDING: STAFF TRAINING IS A MUST
Current editorial fits into the series that started with Team
Building: 10 Tips To Improve Team Focus, Morale and Results, followed by Successful
Techniques To Team Building. Then Why
Team Building Is Vital To Success. This final issue deals with: In
the hustle and bustle of a daily business routine, proper training of the company
staff is often forgotten.
In last delivery, to introduce "Why Team Building
Is Vital To Success", Arsenal Football Club was taken as example.
The same is done here to introduce: In the hustle and bustle
of a daily business routine, proper training of the company staff is often forgotten.
Indeed, Arsenal's manager, Arsene Wenger,
has trained his staff/ players in a way that he has permanently the luxury
to choose between at least two excellent players for the same position on the
pitch, without the team loosing its soul. That is to say, whoever is selected
for a game, plays well to preserve the beautiful ballet like football exhibition
characteristic of Arsenal Football Club.
That means Wenger and his supporting staff had designed training drills
that develop and reinforce technical qualities and blend together youngsters/
new comers and "old" players.
Of course, in a business/ company not dealing with sports events played on a
pitch it is not possible to have two people at the same position. However, establishing
staff training sessions can save the day and maintain productivity. Well designed
staff training sessions would first assist new comers to grabble and
fully understand tricks and ropes procedures existing in the company. Second,
old timers would have the opportunity to transfer experience to the new comers
(and also learn from them.) That is to say, in case of emergency, when a position
holder is missing, his tasks could be attributed to another performer to avoid
disruption in productivity.
Click here to
read about: In the hustle and bustle of a daily business
routine, proper training of the company staff is often forgotten. -
By guest author Wayne Hurlbert
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Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.
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1-SHEA BUTTER (5,
6, 7,
11, 12,
13)
2- BLUE GOLD (14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19)
3- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN (20,
21, 22
and here)
4- KENAF (23,
24)
5- VEGETABLE OIL (25,
26, 27,
28)
6- CEREALS (30,
31, 32,
33)
7- FRUITS (34,
35, 36,
37, 38,
39, 40,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46)
8- ESSENTIAL OILS (47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
52)
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9- ROOTS & TUBERS (54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64)
10- FOWL BREEDING (66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76)
11- FISH FARMING (78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
12- BIOMASS ENERGY (89, 90, 91, 92)
13- SUGAR CANE & PRODUCTS (93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99/100, 101, 102,
14- LIVESTOCK (103,
104, frozen chicken meat |
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LIVESTOCK & GAME DEVELOPMENT: PART
I - INTRODUCTION TO LIVESTOCK AS A COMPONENT PART TO A NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SCHEME
Current issue is the first of a series dealing with livestock development as
an important component part of the Strategy
for African Countries.
Livestock's importance in developing encompasses a broad range of sectors:
food security, fight against poverty, integrated land development, environmental
problems. It can boost the development of other agricultural components such
as cereals production and supply raw materials to other projects (animal grease,
blood, fertilizer, hide and leather) included in the scheme.
- Definition;
 Livestock covers the field of domesticated animals raised in an agricultural
system: goats, sheep, cattle, horses, donkeys, mules, buffalos, oxen,
camels, pig and poultry. Etc.
Livestock may be raised for subsistence or for profit. Raising
animals (animal husbandry) is an important component of modern agriculture.
It has been practiced in many societies, since the transition to farming from
hunter-gather lifestyles. [Source]
Poultry / Fowl breeding had already been extensively exposed [66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76]
and pig fattening used as an illustration case in double-digit
growth rate's description.
- LIVESTOCK
PRODUCTION DEFICIT IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Table below exposes Net trade in livestock products in Africa (x1000
tons) - exact figures from 1970 to 2000 and projection estimates
to 2030) that shows production deficit gap.
| Net
trade in livestock products in Africa (x1000 tons) |
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1970 |
1980 |
1990 |
2000 |
2015 |
2030 |
| Beef |
119 |
63 |
-32 |
52 |
-5 |
-109 |
| Eggs |
0 |
-3 |
-5 |
-17 |
-9 |
-22 |
| Meat |
142 |
50 |
-110 |
-80 |
-283 |
-744 |
| Milk |
-913 |
-2,496 |
-1,785 |
-1,971 |
-3,605 |
-5,226 |
| Mutton/goat |
29 |
40 |
29 |
59 |
73 |
80 |
| Pig meat |
-4 |
-9 |
-21 |
-42 |
-71 |
-108 |
| Poultry |
-2 |
-43 |
-86 |
-149 |
-280 |
-606 |
| Source: FAOSTAT, 2002. Note: Negative figures imply imports. |
Figures
listed on above table are self explanatory:
Africa globally is a net importer of Beef, Milk, Eggs, Poultry and Pig meat.
Only Mutton/ goat seems to cope with demand.
One has to notice, however, that these statistics dated back to year 2,002
and since then the situation had worsened as livestock had been destroyed
by successive droughts and devastating inundations that plagued the sub-Saharan
African region.
Further, there is a dramatic meltdown of livestock genes/breeds in developing
countries and particularly in Africa. [For more on the matter you may read
an interesting
Reuters dispatch by Robert
Evans, dated September
3, 2007]
- THE
DEFICIT MAIN CAUSES
The above revealed deficits in livestock products procurement to African
populations are due to the fact that most African countries have
not devised master strategic plans to develop and boost livestock productions. Another
aberrant gap in the African development landscape.
Indeed, in African countries, livestock's sector
is controlled and managed by small pastoralists/herders/breeders, who
use traditional pastoral methods and techniques. Herds's feeding depending
most of the times on the availability of rain--pastures that become scarce
or are completely wiped out during drought periods. Therefore, herdsmen wander
from place to place with cattle searching for grazing pastures.
Often, the "wanderers" /pastoralists cross
borders from semi-arid, arid regions/countries to greener
regions or countries, invading agricultural fields, destroying crops
and creating havoc that result most of the times in bloody clashes with sedentary
agriculturalists.
Further, traditional
pastoralists/herders/breeders (particularly in the West African region) do
not consider their stock of animals as marketable products. They are happy
to count livestock heads over years and sell only few from time to time.
Only Mutton/ Goat's herders/ breeders sell "en
masse" to
supply Muslims for the celebration of the end of ramadan
In addition, livestock reproduction in African countries
is done by natural coupling. That is to say Insemination
techniques that would assist boosting quality and production level
are not systematically promoted.
Furthermore,
local breeds are increasingly losing ground against imported breeds from Europe
and America.
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Ankole: The Ankole of eastern and central Africa are drought-resistant
and beloved by their keepers for their uncommon gentleness, beauty, rich
milk and tasty meat. Image courtesy of ILRI |
At an experts gathering at Geneva/ Switzerland during the first
week of September 2007, Carlos
Sere of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) told
the conference -- attended by 300 policy-makers, scientists, breeders and farmers
from around the globe -- that the highly-bred varieties from the North offered
short-term benefits with high volumes of meat, milk or eggs.
But over the longer term, they posed a serious risk because many could not cope
with unpredictable environmental change or outbreaks of indigenous disease when
introduced to the more demanding conditions of the South.
This had been confirmed
during recent droughts in Eastern African region, as farmers who had kept their
tough Ankole local breed were able to walk them long distances
to water sources while those who had switched to the imported breeds lost their
entire herds, Carlos Sere said.
- APLENTY
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN LIVESTOCK DEVELOPMENT
Deficits reported
on above table about Net trade in livestock
products in Africa open door to tremendous business opportunities.
Indeed, figures listed on the referenced table show
supplies do not cope with demands and the deficit is aggravated
by the "exploding" urbanization process (rural exodus) occurring
in most African countries. The
demand for monogastrics
(such as pigs and poultry) is projected
to grow at even higher rates than those for ruminant animals.
[Source].
Therefore, opportunities abound in any African country to produce and commercialize
livestock.
Below reported is a short list of
business opportunities in livestock development.
BEEF |
SHEEP & GOATS |
SWINE |
EXOTIC LIVESTOCK |
| Feeding
production |
Feeding
production |
Medium scale swine production |
Ostrich production |
| Cattle fattening |
Lamb production |
Hog fattening |
Partridge production |
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Production background |
Feeder
lamb |
POULTRY |
Pheasant
breeding |
| Medium-scale
production |
Dairy goat production |
66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76 |
Agouti
breeding |
| Dairy beef production |
Goat meat production |
Goose
production |
beaver
breeding |
| Veal production |
Beef
cow-calf operation |
Smoked beef meat production |
Dried
beef meat production |
Above
listed business opportunities will be exposed one by one every 15th of the
month starting from issue
104/ December 15, 2007. At least 30 issues would
be necessary to cover these opportunities.
Bookmark
this page (link valid for Internet Explorer - for other web browsers,
please Click Bookmark on the browser menu) and
come back often to visit. Each time a business opportunity is exposed, its link
would be activated. Stay tune.
| MORE
ON LIVESTOCK & GAME DEVELOPMENT |
1-Handbook
of Livestock Management
by Richard A. Battaglia (Paperback - Jul 21, 2006)
2- Raising
Small Livestock:
A Practical Handbook
by Jerome D. Belanger (Paperback - Feb 11, 2005)
3- The
Homesteader's Handbook
to Raising Small Livestock Goats, Chickens, Sheep. Geese, Rabbitts, Hogs, Turkeys,
Guinea Fowl, Ducks and Pigeons
by Jerome D. Belanger (Hardcover - April 1974)
4-
Backyard Livestock:
Raising Good, Natural Food for Your Family, Third Edition by Steven Thomas and
George P. Looby (Paperback - Jan 2, 2007)
5-
Keeping
Livestock Healthy:
A Veterinary Guide to Horses, Cattle, Pigs, Goats & Sheep, 4th Edition
by
N. Bruce Haynes (Paperback - Nov 1, 2001)
6- Alternative
Health Practices for Livestock
by Michael Keilty and Thomas Morris (Hardcover - Jan 1, 2006)
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7- A
World Dictionary of Livestock Breed
Types, and Varieties
by V. Porter and I. L. Mason (Hardcover - Jun 6, 2002)
8- Livestock
waste facilities handbook
(Paperback - 1985)
9- Raising
Small Livestock:
A Practical Handbook
by Jerome D. Belanger (Paperback - Feb 11, 2005)
10-
Livestock Feeds and Feeding (5th Edition)
(Hardcover - Jun 8, 2001)
by Richard O. Kellems and David C. Church
11- Raising
Game Birds
by Lessiter Publications (Paperback - Jun 1986)
12- Livestock
Production in Unfavourable Economic Environments:
Strategies for Attaining Sustained Competitive Advantage
by P. G. A Jennings
(Hardcover - Mar 30, 2007)
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