Focus of Division

1. Develop technologies for efficient and economic exploitation of our natural resource.
2. Develop technologies that would ensure and promote sound environmental health
3. Participate in the NTD grant scheme

Current R & D 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 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.