
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
- Develop modern technologies for livestock production.
- 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.