Peri-urban dairy production on the Accra Plains and in Northern Ghana

Food supplementation (in the dry season) of cattle, sheep and goats in the Northern Guinea Savanna and the Coastal Plains, using crop residues and agro- industrial by-products.

Studies into various agro-industrial by-products as alternative protein source in broiler diets.

Forage/herbage production for dry season feeding of ruminants.

Range assessment studies in the various ecological zones of Ghana.

Rural poultry improvement programme.

Pasture and browse plant breeding.

Popularization of the micro-livestock industry (e.g.. Grasscutter production).

Integration of crops with animal production to ease pressure on land and improve the efficiency of natural resources utilization.

Control of helminth and coccidia parasitic infection in livestock.

Strategies for vaccination against the Newcastle disease virus and infectious bursal disease of chickens in Ghana.

Cattle breed development.

Animal traction studies.

Ethnoveterinary and plant medicine in animal health care.

Genetic conservation and development of West African shorthorn cattle. (WASH) and Djallonke sheep in the Saboba Chereponi District of Northern Ghana.

Socio-economic studies of farm operations and statistical support for research and policy analysis.