**5. Latching the lacuna**

Technology adoption and transfer have been major problems in developing countries owing to so many reasons. Principal among them is lack of technical know-how, poor or near absence of funding, diversion of released funds for specific projects/corruption and weak agricultural extension agents who are either unaware of recent findings or who reluctantly refuse to diffuse information from research institutes to farmers.

ART in Nigeria should be given a linear but additive approach starting with AI which is the oldest and most pliable form of it. This can be combined with sperm sexing in the long run. Individuals and corporate bodies san train manpower on semen collection, estrous synchronization and artificial insemination. Reproductive physiologists should brace up for the challenge in this field.

Nigerian is blessed with tropical herbs which are used in unorthodox medicines by herbalists. Some of these herbs have proven to be potent in managing pregnancies and parturitions in humans. The same crude technology can be extended to N'dama and Muturu. In humans, pregnancies that exceed forty weeks without labour and parturition are managed with these herbs to prevent the fetus from becoming overfat so that labour and normal vaginal delivery will set in a short time. This will be averted if the gravid woman was placed on these herbs as a routine during the course of the pregnancy. These two breeds became animals of choice due to their resistance to trypanosomosis which has made it possible for them to thrive where other breeds have failed to thrive without inoculation against trypanosomosis. Pregnancy complications arising from using say Holstein Friesian semen to upgrade the duo will be managed with these tropical herbs which abound in Nigeria. This will open up new frontiers in research on cattle which may help to solve some of the problems outlined in Section 2.4 of this work.
