FAO ANIMAL PRODUCTION AND HEALTH PAPER 1

animal breeding:
selected articles from the
WORLD ANIMAL REVIEW

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Introduction

This volume of studies from the World Animal Review contains the articles published on animal breeding in the first twenty issues of the journal, presenting the experience and the results of work of animal breeders and geneticists from 16 countries. Although the principal focus of the articles is on animal breeding in the developing areas of the world, information from developed countries is also included.

The text of this volume has been organized in four parts. The first deals with the more general problems of artificial insemination, embryo transfers and utilization of animal gene resources, and includes an article on new facets of animal breeding research in the United States. The second contains all the articles on dairy cattle breeding in the tropics, with special emphasis on crossbreeding. The third is devoted to the breeding of beef cattle, and the last contains material on sheep and alpaca breeding.

This publication is designed to provide a ready and easy reference to animal breeders and geneticists concerned with the improvement of milk and meat production, particularly in the warmer areas of the world. But it will also be of value to other technical and scientific personnel in government departments, research institutes, universities and training centres as well as to the large number of people concerned with livestock development in both developed and developing countries. The articles do not provide panaceas to the problem of animal breeding; however, it is hoped that they may stimulate critical interest, new trends of thought, constructive discussion and positive action.

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Introduction
GENERAL
G.R. Duncanson	The Kenya National Artificial Insemination Service (16)
A. Bane and C.A. Hultnäs	Artificial insemination of cattle in developing countries (9)
K.N. Bedirian, E.B. Burnside,	The commercial application of embryo transfer in domestic animals (13)
H. Kanagawa AND J. Wilton	Utilizing animal gene resources (18)
U.B. Lindström	New facets of animal breeding research in the United States (18)
R.L. Willham
DAIRY CATTLE
U.B. Lindström	Milk recording in developing countries (19)
I.L. Mason	Maintaining crossbred populations of dairy cattle in the tropics (11)
V. Buvanendran AND P. Mahadevan	Crossbreeding for milk production in Sri Lanka (15)
R.H. Hayman	The development of the Australian Milking Zebu (11)
K. Meyn AND J.V. Wilkins	Breeding for milk in Kenya, with particular reference to the Sahiwal Stud (11)
K.E. Wellington and P. Mahadevan	Development of the Jamaica Hope breed of dairy cattle (15)
R.H. Ansell	Maintaining European dairy cattle in the Near East (20)
Ove Madsen	Red Danish cattle in the tropics (19)
Lucia Pearson de Vaccaro	Dairy cattle breeding in tropical South America (12)
BEEF CATTLE
H.G. Turner	The tropical adaptation of beef cattle (13)
B. Vissac	Using large muscular breeds to improve world beef production (19)
J.C.M. Trail and T.W. Rennie	Botswana: Performance testing of beef cattle (14)
M.J. Creek	The Kenya feedlot project (3)
OTHER
Helen Newton Turner	Some aspects of sheep breeding in the tropics (10)
Michael Welham	Crossbreeding sheep for milk and meat in a Mediterranean environment (19)
Saúl Fernández-Baca	Alpaca raising in the High Andes (14)

Note: The number in brackets refers to the issue of World Animal Review in which the article originally appeared.

Introduction

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