The study determined the willingness and capacity of poultry farmers to pay for extension services in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. At this research used a sample size of 120 poultry farmers. Simple descriptive statistics, Kuppuswamy scale and Logit regression model were used data analysis. The results showed that majority of the poultry farmers (87.5%) indicated their willingness to pay for extensi...

introduction: light livestock is one of the main resources of the red meat supply. in our country, annual growth rate of light livestock production is decreased by 6.4 percent in 1383 -93. in the other words, the required input price of light livestock producing have fluctuations that have much effect on producer decisions quality. therefore, more attention to light livestock nurturing and fact...

Rural tourism is becoming increasingly embedded in the livestock animal management in rural areas. Drawing on a multi-methods approach, this exploratory research shows how to construct the livestock animal displacement actor-networks. As is found, human actors (local governments, tourists, and local residents), non-human animal (livestock) and quasi-object (human dwellings) construct an interac...

This issue of the ILAR Journal focuses on livestock models in translational medicine. Livestock models of selected human diseases present important advantages as compared with rodent models for translating fundamental breakthroughs in biology to useful preventatives and therapeutics for humans. Livestock reflect the complexity of applying medical advances in an outbred species. In many cases, t...

The accession of the eight CEE member states to the EU will integrate about 450 million consumers with rather similar consumption patterns for animal products. Both the old and the new EU members produce surpluses, but in ruminant meat production the EU will become a net importer. As the EU will be forced to reduce import barriers from the World market, price levels will decline, but probably b...

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...

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This study compares the income contribution of forest products with that of farm related activities such as cropping and livestock rearing. Quarterly income data collected over a period of one year are used to compile income profiles for households in two contrasting districts, Mufulira and Kabompo districts in Zambia. Villages in Mufulira are located within easy access to bustling mining towns...

The usefulness of variable number tandem repeat (VNTR) typing based on limited numbers of loci has previously proven inferior compared to IS6110-RFLP typing when applied to the study of the molecular epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in both livestock and wildlife in southern Africa. In this study, the discriminatory power of 29 published VNTR loci in the characterization of 131 Mycobacterium...

Results. Brucellosis in livestock is present in some regions in Serbia. During the period from 2003 to 2007, the prevalence of brucellosis in sheep was 19.5%-73% (26.8%), in goats 0%-67.1% (35%), in cattle 0%-36.1% (4.8%), and in pigs 0%-16.4% (5.8%). During 2004 new foci of brucellosis in livestock and humans were discovered in the territories of Srednjebanatski and Zapadnobacki counties. By t...