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Welcome to the Jersey cattle breeding programme in Rwanda.

This cattle breeding programme is a joint venture between the Royal Jersey Agricultural & Horticultural Society and the Government of Rwanda with the aim of providing training in the technique of artificial insemination and cross breeding the indigenous Ankole cow (pictured above) to a pure bred Jersey bulls to improve milk yield.

The resultant first cross Jersey x Ankole (also pictured above) can produce 10 litres of milk per day as compared to the pure Ankole which produces 1 litre of milk per day.

The benefits of this programme are the provision of skills to the rural population in Rwanda and over time an increase in milk production which will lead to self sufficiency and the development of the dairy industry in that country.

The A.I. training is being undertaken by Andre Militis, sponsored by the Jersey Overseas Aid Commission, and we hope you find this site of interest. If you would like to know more about our work please contact the Royal Jersey Agricultural & Horticultural Society through the following web site Royal Jersey Agricultural & Horticultural Society

Rwanda March/April 2007

Two courses were run numbering 45 students in the south of the country around Butare. 38 of these trainees were successful. In total so far approximately 300 inseminators have been trained. As well as running the courses the opportunity was taken to do some follow-ups with previous candidates as well as seeing the progress of cows inseminated with Jersey semen.

The follow-ups proved to be quite difficult or rather time consuming as although Rwanda is quite small the terrain and roads makes for long journeys.

Inseminator Training Course Report - Jan ‚Äò07

Successful inseminators from January 2007.

This visit was a combination of running two training courses for prospective inseminators and a 1 day workshop covering gestation diagnosis for students trained in 2005.

The government prior to my arrival had already selected the students for the two courses by advertising via the media. The government have a target of 400 trained

Field Report - September to October ‚Äô06

Aim:

To re-start the programme of training Artificial Insemination Technicians in Rwanda to enable the Government of Rwanda to expand the initiative to cross breed the indigenous Ankole cattle with pure Jersey semen, in order to increase

Course Report of December 2005

Aim:- to train prospective artificial inseminators selected from the Province Gitarama. The contact was James T. Rubakisibo, Project Manager of the Lutheran World Federation for Gitarama Province. The training Centre was situated in the countryside approximately 50 kilometres from Kigali,

Successful Trainees of December 2005

These are the successful trainees who took part in the first course of the Cattle Breeding Programme.

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