Many attempts to improve livestock in the tropics have been made, mainly by 'upgrading' them through crossbreeding with temperate breeds. The major problems faced during the failed cattle breeding programmes are:
(A)The breeding programmes have been too complicated in terms of logistics, technology and resources without considering the infrastructure available
(B)Indiscriminate crossbreeding of indigenous breeds with exotic breeds without enough consideration of environment conditions for production
(C)Lack of analysis of the different socio-economic and cultural roles that livestock play in each situation, usually leading to wrong breeding objectives and neglect of the potential of various indigenous breeds of livestock
(D)All of theseCorrect
Answer: (D)
Solution
Failed attempts at upgrading tropical livestock through crossbreeding have generally resulted from a combination of overly complicated logistics,
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