Economic aspects of livestock production in Punjab, Pakistan
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1982
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Rauf, Abdul
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Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University
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The study on the structure of livestock production in Punjab
province of Pakistan aims to determine whether the landless participate
equally with farm families in livestock production. The impact of
mechanisation and land development policies upon animal stocking rate is
also investigated.
In addition to the above district level analysis, a comparison
of livestock production is made between two selected regions with differing
production systems to explore the investment priorities. Allocation of
resources in livestock enterprises is investigated to identify the resource
constraints within regions.
Regression analysis of district level cross-sectional data is
used to analyse the structure of livestock production in Punjab. A
production function approach is applied to estimate the productivity
parameters. Alternative livestock production systems are compared in
mechanised milkshed versus traditional remote regions.
The study concludes that the landless participate equally with
farm families in animal enterprise although excluding draft animals.
Similar results are shown in three animal categories, viz. milch, young
bovines and sheep and goats. Land development policies tend to reduce
the livestock population with the exception of milch animal category which
is unaffected. In contrast, mechanisation shows a strong complementary
relationship with milch animals. Thus, mechanisation appears to be
associated with a substantial increase in milk production. The results imply that the ownership of animals is more evenly
distributed than the ownership of land in rural Punjab. Hence a rural
development strategy based on 'animals' would be more likely to encourage
the involvement and participation of the landless and/or marginal farmers
who are relatively neglected in crop research and extension programmes.
Integration of milk development programmes with the government's
mechanisation and land development policies should, therefore, be of higher
priority than at present due to strong complementarities among the policies.
Research, extension, credit and price policies are suggested to encourage
the implementation of the above proposed integrated rural development
strategy. These policy proposals are based on the results from the
comparison of alternative livestock production systems in the respective
regions.
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