Mr. Peter Asiedu, PhD

Senior Research Scientist & Head of Division

Mr. Bernard Ato Hagan, PhD

Research Scientist

Mr. Gabriel Adu-Aboagye

Research Scientists

Mr. Godson Aryee Zagbede

Principal Technologist (Animal Breeding and Genetics)

Ms. Gifty Ziema Bumbie

Principal Technologist

Mr. Kwame Owusu Amoah

Senior Research Scientist

Mrs. Achiamaa Asafu-Adjaye Koranteng

Senior Research Scientist

Mrs. Vida Korkor Lamptey

Senior Research Scientist

Ms. Susuana Asaam

Principal Technologist

CORE OBJECTIVES OF THE DIVISION

1. Develop modern technologies for livestock production.
2. Develop technology packages for different categories of livestock.

CURRENT RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

• Screening of forages with the view of selecting drought tolerant species for sustainable livestock production.
• Assessing nutritional composition of forages for efficient utilization by ruminants.
• Crop-livestock farming systems research.
• Sustainable crop/pasture production strategies Forage conservation strategies for sustainable feeding of ruminants.
• Livestock manure management and utilization.
• Introduction of fodder banks/feed gardens to smallholder ruminant farmers in some rural communities in Ghana.
• Animal feeding trials with various forages.
• Effect of climate change on animal production in general and forage resource availability in particular.
• Development of climate-smart livestock technologies and innovation.
• Increasing guinea fowl productivity.
• Animal traction management and animal behaviour studies
• Amelioration of environmental stressors on physiology and productivity of livestock.
• Improving livestock productivity under resource-poor conditions
• Enhancement of ecological efficiency of livestock production systems across Ghana and the West African sub-region through collaborative research.
• Developing dynamic models for pasture growth, yield and quality for the across northern and southern grassland ecological zones of Ghana to support ruminant livestock production.
• Testing improved feeding trough for efficient feed utilization. USAID feed the future initiative, Africa RISING project Phase II.