Livestock Production Challenges and Improved Forage Production Efforts in the Damot Gale District of Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia

Table 2

Major livestock production challenges.

Constraints	Intervention		Nonintervention
	N (index)	Rank	N (index)	Rank
Feed shortage	396 (0.33)	1	380 (0.32)	1
Water shortage	288 (0.24)	2	280 (0.23)	3
Disease	276 (0.23)	3	294 (0.25)	2
Market problem	147 (0.12)	4	145 (0.12)	4
Poor breed performance	93 (0.08)	5	101 (0.08)	5

N is the sum of the products of frequency and score and is obtained by adding the multiplication of the frequency and score given for each rank level. The 1^st rank level is given the highest score (5).