Underutilized animal genetic resources

Governmental infrastructure for improving services for recording and progeny-performance testing is weak or non-existent in developing countries, and some potentially viable animal breeds and strains in the developing countries are much underutilized, even though the animals could play an important role in economic and social development.

The FAO includes the following animals as underutilized: Boran and Sahiwal cattle, Awassi sheep, Shami goats, water buffalo, and camelidae (llama and alpaca).

1. Underutilization of resources

1. Unexplored small stock varieties

1. Poor quality of domestic livestock

1. Limited availability of cross-breeding techniques
2. Lack of gene banks
3. Inadequate agricultural facilities

1. Excess breeding of dogs
2. Animal and plant eugenics

1. Using genetic resources
2. Using animal genetic resources
3. Practising selective breeding of animals
4. Improving livestock production
5. Improving domestic livestock
6. Creating genetically modified organisms
7. Compiling database of domestic animal genetics
8. Compiling data base of wild animal genetic resources
9. Breeding cattle
10. Abstaining from animal breeding

1. Unused
2. Unmanageability
3. Unimproved
4. Underuse
5. Lack
6. Breeding