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Development of Camel Dairy farming System on the Peri-urban of N'Djamena, Chad

Mahamat Ahmat M.A., Koussou M.O., Faye Bernard, Arada lzzedine A., Mahamat Hassan H.. 2018. Development of Camel Dairy farming System on the Peri-urban of N'Djamena, Chad. In : Recent advances in camelids biology, health and production : Proceedings of the 5th conference ISOCARD 2018. Sghiri Abdelmalek (ed.), Kichou Faouzi (ed.). Laâyoune : ISOCARD, Résumé, 560. ISBN 978-9920-36-565-9 Conference of the international society of camelid research and development ISOCARD 2018. 5, Laâyoune, Maroc, 12 Novembre 2018/15 Novembre 2018.

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Résumé : Camel dairy farming on the peri-urban of N'Djamena was the subject of a survey including 172 camel farmers and their selling collector wives. These camel farmers were distributed in 27 camps of eight (8) localities which were located on the 5 main roads of entry of N'Djamena to supply the city with milk in dray season. The data collected made it possible to identify four (4) types of categories of breeders: very large, large, middle and small. The first three types of breeders adopted a strategy based on herd division, the nucleus of lactating females was kept on the peri-urban of N'Djamena and the rest of the animals were sent to the pastoral zone (southern part of the country). However, the group of small breeders kept all the animals on the peri-urban of N'Djamena. During, the rainy season, the entire herd were led to Northern part of the country (Kanem) to protect them from biting insects. The breeders who camps within a radius of less than 20 km, along the main roads of the entrance of N'Djamena were for the most part small breeders who practiced a supplementary feeding and sold their milk directly to consumers. Those who camp within a radius of more than 20 km were for the most part very large and large breeders who depended on the forage resources of the natural pastures and practiced a supplementary feeding only during the lean season and their milk was sold to the collectors' wives of the breeders. In our sample, the mean daily milk production was 3.36 ± 0.48 I/camel/day. The milk sold was estimated at 21,903.65 I/day. 7,194.65 I/day (32.77%) were exposed near the main roads and 14,709.00 I/day (67.23%) were sent by the farmers' wives who went door to door in the neighbourhoods of the city of N'Djamena. The study reveals that camel dairy farming on the peri-urban of N'Djamena shows some dynamism, but it still remains in the traditional state.

Mots-clés libres : Camel milk, Dairy system, Peri-urban, N'Djamena, Chad

Auteurs et affiliations

  • Mahamat Ahmat M.A., IRED (TCD)
  • Koussou M.O., IRED (TCD)
  • Faye Bernard, CIRAD-ES-UMR SELMET (FRA)
  • Arada lzzedine A., IRED (TCD)
  • Mahamat Hassan H., Ministère de l'Elevage et des Productions Animales (Tchad) (TCD)

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