What are the challenges facing livestock farmers in Uganda?
What are the challenges of poultry farming in Uganda?
According to Byarugaba, (2007), Uganda has no data on the genetic makeup of the local breeds and thus, local poultry breeders do not have an appropriate breeding program. In addition, farmers lack a structured selection process on improving traits of economic importance like egg production. Similar to many developing countries, rural poultry production is highly hindered by diseases and the common ones being  endemic new castle and coccidiosis with a high mortality rate of 40 -80  percent (FAO, 2009). Feed  availability, feed quality and feed  costs are  a threat to  commercial poultry production. Availability of compounded feeds is hindered by competition for the ingredients such as cereal grains, fish with humans, brewing industry and other livestock industries. Most of the medicines and vaccines are imported making them expensive and their distribution is not extensive. 