The Start of the South African Sheep Industry The first historical records on sheep farming in South Africa go back in history to the first time that the Portuguese mariner and explorer, Bartolomeu Dias, explored the coastline in 1488, discovering the trade route to...
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Overview of the Sheep Industry
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Sheep Farming in the Southern Africa Region
The first European explorers and settlers on the west and south coasts of southern Africa obtained sheep and cattle from people who spoke the Khoe language, and for a long, we assumed that the Khoe-speakers had originally migrated into southern Africa bringing the...
Sheep Population in African Countries
Nigeria had the largest sheep population in Africa as of 2020, with roughly 48 million heads. Ethiopia and Sudan followed, each with a sheep stock of 43 million and 41 million heads, respectively. That same year, Africa had around 418 million heads of sheep, one of...
Livestock Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa
According to the United Nations' definition, 49 of the 54 African states are included in the region known as Sub-Saharan Africa, which is the portion of the African continent located geographically south of the Sahara. The Sahara and the Sahel divide sub-Saharan...
Sheep Farming in the Sahel and the Sub-Sahara Regions of Africa
Indigenous African sheep genetic resources have been classified into two main groups, fat-tailed and thin-tailed sheep. The fat-tailed sheep are the most widely distributed, being found in a large part of North Africa (from Egypt to Algeria) and in Eastern and...