South-South Cooperation in Liberia (Part IV) |
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2014-06-24 18:08 |
The main achievements III. Carried out pilot demonstration VI) Carried out demonstrations in livestock production. Swine production: Chinese SSC team reconditioned local old buildings as pigpens for demonstration's purpose. There were 3 demonstration sites with the total area of 430㎡. Chinese specialists encouraged Liberian counterparts to purchase 8 breeding pigs at their own expenses and demonstrated all-around practical production technologies such as economical feed preparation, mating, birth assistance, cutting teeth and tails, gelding and spaying, disease diagnosis and treatment etc. Poultry production: Chinese specialists reconstructed 3 poultry (chicken and duck) houses from old buildings and one of them kept 200 chickens. The practical technologies demonstrated were how to raise the poultry and how to prepare the feed. Rabbit production: Chinese specialists built a new cage with 20 rabbits inside and demonstrated the practical skills of designing and making the rabbit cage and raising rabbits. Cattle and goat production: Chinese specialists designed and fenced 3500㎡of pasture with a fodder shed, a concentrated feed storeroom, a feed-processing room and a flat playground for flocks and herds inside, and at the same time, demonstrated the practical technologies such as alteration of sheep pens, improvement of goat varieties, castration, deworming and ensiling of maize stalks etc. 16 heads of goats were kept in the demonstration field. A pigpen designed and guided by Chinese team
A sheep pen designed and constructed by Chinese team
A rabbit cage built by Chinese team
Self-made drinking device in a poultry house
Diagnosing a disease for a goat
Preparing pig feed VII) Carried out demonstrations in aquaculture. Chinese specialists designed 2 fishnet cages, reconditioned 1500㎡ of fish ponds, built 3 earth dams, produced 400,000 tilapia fingerlings and 100,000 catfish fingerlings and constructed 3 demonstration fish ponds with the area of 2300㎡ and the yield of Reconditioning a fish pond
Selecting parent fishes
VIII) Carried out demonstration in water conservancy. In Measuagoon duty station, Chinese specialist designed independently and constructed, together with parties concerned, an earth dam and an irrigation system with the designed capacity of 1000 cubic meters at the 1st phase, which can irrigate
An irrigation channel under construction
Installing water-pumping facilities
(To be continued) |