Ethiopia has the largest number of livestock more than any other country in Africa, according to the latest livestock census statistics conducted on the African continent
Ethiopia leads with a staggering 60.39 million cattle while Tanzania in the second position has an estimated total of 33.9million cattle.
Tanzania’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) report on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Census for 2019/2020 said on Tuesday that the east African vast country was host to 24.5 million goats herded by small scale farmers while 33.3million goats were being herded by large scale farmers.
“In the survey conducted, peasants were found with 8.5mllion sheep while large-scale farmers have 24.2million sheep. Again the peasants were found with 3.2million pigs while large scale farmers are rearing 5.1million pigs,” Dr Albina Chuwa the Director General of NBS said.
According to this survey, it was also found that Tanzania had a total of 87.7million chicken out of which 75.1 million were processed by small holder farmers while, 12.6million were being reared by large scale farmers.
