<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157595"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Sub-theme 1.1. Animal Production and Health</strong></span></p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Aim </strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The aim of this sub-theme is to enhance the livelihood of farmers/producers through improving animal production and productivity.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Description</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The sub-theme focuses on animal genetics (breed improvement), reproductive physiology and biotechnology, and management improvement, enhancing the quality and availability of existing feed resources and/or seeking alternative economical feed resources, rangeland related potentials and problems, investigating meat and milk and value addition on products, and improvement in the marketing of livestock and livestock products.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;">The sub-theme also incorporates research directed at identifying animal health problems, determining the temporal-spatial magnitude of diseases, disease prioritization, modelling and risk factors analysis, development of improved methods of disease tracking and monitoring, and clinical/surgical research as a prelude to design appropriate animal disease management packages. The research sub-theme investigates the biopharmaceutical and pharmacological aspects of herbal and ethno-veterinary medicines, development of diagnostics and diagnostic technologies, therapeutics, vaccines and biologicals as well as examining ways to enhance the quality and efficiency animal health care service delivery.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157596"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><strong>Research Areas</strong></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157597"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.1.1. Development and promotion of animal production and products</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157598"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.1.2. Animal disease epidemiology and development of animal disease management packages</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157599"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.1.3. Pastoral and agro-pastoral animal productivity improvement</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157600"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.1.4. Animal genetic resources improvement, conservation, and management</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157601"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.1.5. Development and evaluation of veterinary therapeutics, diagnostics and biologicals</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Toc389157602"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><em>1.1.6. Animal feeding and nutrition</em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><u> </u></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sub-theme-1.1-description.pdf"><u>For the details, click here</u></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-Sub-theme-1.1-Priority-research-areas.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2017</u></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;"><a href="http://ResearchAffairs.haramaya.edu.etwp-content/uploads/2017/10/2016-Sub-theme-1.1-Priority-research-areas.pdf"><u>Research priorities 2016</u></a></span></p>