Rural Women’s Involvement for Livestock Raising in Pakistan

Livestock Income, Male/female Animals, and Inequality in Rural Pakistan

This paper uses income decomposition techniques to demonstrate the importance of livestock income in improving rural income distribution. It is based on three-year household panel data (1986 to 1989) from rural Pakistan. The paper first decomposes total income among five sources: agricultural, nonfarm, livestock, rental and transfer. This shows that livestock income is inequality-decreasing and...

Livestock Research for Rural Development

Livestock Research for Rural Development

On-farm trials were carried out in two data collection periods to evaluate the performance of growing-fattening pigs fed on local sources of carbohydrates supplemented with 200 g/day of protein from soya bean grain or meal, in both cases enriched with vitamins and minerals. In the first period, four farmers with a total of 33 pigs using the traditional system based on concentrates provided base...

Characteristics of Rural Subsistence Small Holder Livestock Production System in Mountainous Areas of Nwfp, Pakistan

A study was conducted in the rural mountainous areas of North West Frontier Province of Pakistan to characterize small holder’s subsistence livestock production system. Livestock farmers (n=82) were interviewed in 16 villages of Batagram and Mansehra districts. The farmers were keeping on an average 4 buffalos, 1 cattle, 12 sheep or 13 goats per household. More than 94% farmers were keeping 4 b...

Livestock and Rural Household Food Security: The Case of Small Farmers of the Punjab, Pakistan