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Of the 30 million km2 of the African continent, 15 million km2 have good quality and plentiful water supplies and are thus well suited for livestock production. In almost half of this area, however, livestock rearing is severely limited by tsetse-transmitted animal trypanosomiasis, a chronic parasitic disease usually fatal in susceptible species (Finelle 1983). If trypanosomiasis could be controlled, a large part of this region could be immediately used for livestock or mixed agriculture. With an increasing human population in the region, there is mounting pressure for increased food production on tsetse-free pastures and farmland. But many of these tsetse-free areas are in the drier regions of Africa where the local ecology is too fragile to support continuous heavy use. Problems associated with overgrazing in these areas further emphasize the need to bring into full production the more favourable agricultural areas currently under-utilized due to trypanosomiasis (Trail 1987).
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Kasali, O.B., Njau, B.C., Bekele, T. (1988). Controlling Livestock Diseases in the Tropics by Breeding: A Perspective. In: Thomson, E.F., Thomson, F.S. (eds) Increasing Small Ruminant Productivity in Semi-arid Areas. Current Topics in Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, vol 47. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1317-2_20
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