Hence, the potential for both beef and milk production is poorly developed. However, the breed has been used as the preferred dam breed in most of the dairy cattle crossbreeding studies over the last decades. The Dida Tuyera station under the Oromia Agricultural Research Institute in the Borana rangelands is the only place where Ethiopian Boran pure breeding program is undertaken. Unfortunately, the station doesn’t have clear breeding objectives. The challenge for breeders in Ethiopia is to identify which breeding objective the breed has to be developed for, and design appropriate strategies for sustainable genetic improvement of the breed, without.
