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28 Natural Resource Use and Management: The Albertine Rift Region • Reducing surface soil erosion by preventing open grazing and reducing dependence on grasses. • Using animal manure to fertilise the soils and intercrops, thereby reducing reliance on inorganic fertiliser. • Providing additional income through sale of livestock. Desirable characteristics of pasture species • High protein and nutrient content: for improvement of livestock nutrition. • Palatable: livestock are selective about what fodder they will eat. • Free of toxic substances: some fodder species contain toxic substances that can be consumed only in small amounts. Leucaena spp, for example, contain mimosine which, in large doses, is harmful to animals. It must, therefore, be used in combination with other fodder sources. • Sprout well: ability to recover rapidly after pruning. Livestock pest and diseases control measures Environmental control The housing, feeding and watering equipment should be cleaned regularly to prevent them from being a source of disease. Movement control A farmer’s animals should be isolated as far as possible from contact with other animals as these may be a source of disease. Control of host insects Where diseases are carried by insects such as ticks and flies, then a program to kill such insects is necessary. They can be killed by spraying or physically killing them.
Training and Technological Interventions 29 Control by vaccination There are some diseases which can only be adequately controlled by vaccination. Veterinary attention Sick animals should be isolated as soon as possible from the rest of the animals and should receive urgent veterinary attention. This is because many diseases can be cured if treated at the early stages. Fisher folk Why UWS should work with fish folk in Buliisa According to the fisher folk, the major constraints to natural resource productivity are inappropriate management (64.2%), pests (including wildlife attack) and diseases (15.16%) and climate change (9.4%). To address these constraints the fisher folk recommend interventions such as training and adoption of technologies such as tree planting (45.3%), access to resources in wildlife protected areas (17.0%), stabilisation of market for fish catch (11.3%) and pests and disease control (11.3%). The following interventions shall be promoted among the fisher folk. Training and technologies to be promoted among fisher folk in Buliisa The fisheries sector, unlike agriculture, is based on hunting mobile prey (fish) by thousands of fishermen who compete for the same resources. To sustainably manage these resources requires many rules and regulations to be obeyed by fishermen and traders. To obtain greater compliance to fisheries rules requires closer involvement of fisheries stakeholders in managing the resources upon which their livelihoods depend. The Government of Uganda adopted a new management approach called co-management in which local people are equal partners in managing fisheries. This is supported
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