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This article aims to assess the feasibility of using native legumes as alternative sources of protein in compound feeds by poultry producers and pig producers. Data to achieve this objective came from a direct survey conducted in 2018, with twenty-three poultry and pig producers. Measures of descriptive statistics were used in the calculations. The collected information was analyzed and then described using descriptive statistical methods. The research used statistical data collected in the databases of the Central Statistical Office and the databases of the Institute of Agricultural and Food Economics. The obtained results were illustrated using graphical methods of data presentation. The study reveals that the main obstacles to the use of native legumes in animal nutrition, in the opinion of pig producers and poultry producers, include the share of anti-nutrients, problems with digestibility of legumes, low protein content in seeds, problems with production technology and the higher cost of compound feeds.

A new generation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) is finding a small foothold among poor, small-scale farmers in developing countries. Even so, many barriers still prevent poor rural people from accessing, using, and benefiting from new ICT tools and platforms, and those barriers are arguably higher for rural women. The relationship between gender and agriculture has been studied intensively over the years, and many agricultural interventions now include gender as a crosscutting issue or mainstream gender throughout their operations. Studies of the relationship between gender and the use of ICTs in agriculture have started to appear only quite recently, however. The Africa Region of the World Bank views ICTs as potentially transformative technology for rural development and seeks to incorporate the use of ICTs throughout its portfolio of projects. The present study was designed to examine the feasibility of integrating ICTs into two large investment programs: the Irrigation Development and Support Project (IDSP) in Zambia and the Kenya Agricultural Productivity and Agribusiness Project (KAPAP). The specifi c goal was to examine how ICT-based interventions might be designed to strengthen women s participation in commodity value chains under the two projects.

The purpose of this thesis is to make an evaluation of the competitive position of the Utah livestock industry based on feed ingredient and transportation costs, This is done by the use of a linear programming model (MPS-360). This is on the basis of the least cost means of production to meet the quantity demanded of the livestock products. This is accomplished by dividing the United States into six regions where Utah is one of these regions to enable careful consideration of Utah's agricultural enterprises. Beef, pork, broilers, turkeys, eggs, and milk are the agricultural products used in the model. The feeds used for production are barley, wheat, corn, oats, milo, hay, and 44 percent soybean meal. Mega calories of metabolizable energy were the energy units used in the model as a medium of exchange between feed inputs and livestock products as outputs.