Goat production systems in Punjab, Pakistan

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and advanced research instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malangen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Pakistanen
cg.contributor.affiliationSilesian University of Technologyen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Agriculture, Pakistanen
cg.contributor.crpLivestock and Fish
cg.coverage.countryPakistan
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2PK
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.urlhttp://www.thejaps.org.pk/docs/v-25-03/03.pdfen
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2071-7024en
cg.issue3en
cg.journalJournal of Animal and Plant Sciencesen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL PRODUCTIONen
cg.subject.ilriGOATSen
cg.volume25en
dc.contributor.authorMuhammad, M.S.en
dc.contributor.authorAbdullah, M.en
dc.contributor.authorJaved, K.en
dc.contributor.authorKhan, M.S.en
dc.contributor.authorJabbar, M.A.en
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-11T12:30:47Zen
dc.date.available2016-03-11T12:30:47Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/72560
dc.titleGoat production systems in Punjab, Pakistanen
dcterms.abstractThe present study was conducted to explore the rural goat production system and know the involvement of rural families in this enterprise by using household surveys. The survey was conducted in six villages at two experimental sites (Bahawalpur and Faisalabad). Fifty five households from each village were interviewed using stratified random sampling method. Information about livestock inventory, production of goat, type of production systems and parameters, management of goat, and breeding strategies were recorded. Household heads were the incharge of farm activities at both sites in most of the cases (91.40% vs 91.97%). Interests in goat keeping were similar at both sites (83.11% & 80.15%). Flock sizes averaged 7.14 and 4.87 at both sites, respectively. Majority of the farmers kept goats mainly for home consumption (23.03% and 17.93% at Sites I and II, respectively). Main production system adopted in the spring (58.5% and 55.4%), summer (52.9% & 51.2%), rainy (57.7% & 52.9%) and winter (60.2% & 56.3%) seasons were intensive and semi-intensive at Sites I and II, respectively. Types of housing during day time were free range (47.9% & 35.3%) and during night confinement in sheds (87.0% & 72.9%) at Sites I and II, respectively. Most of the farmers' time was spent on marketing goats at Sites I and II (1.15 vs 1.95 Hrs), respectively. Main feeding regime was grazing and more farmers used grazing at Site-I (45.45%) as compared to Site-II (5.80%) while feed ingredients were used by the majority of farmers at Site-II (26.81%) as compared to Site-I (14.94%). Twice a day watering was common practice at both sites. It is suggested that long term policies should be made in the light of present findings to improve the productivity of rural production systems and facilitate the farmers to the maximum for improved goat production.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMuhammad, M.S., Abdullah, M., Javed, K., Khan, M.S. and Jabbar, M.A. 2015. Goat production systems in Punjab, Pakistan. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences 25(3): 618 – 624en
dcterms.issued2015-06-15
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.subjectanimal productionen
dcterms.subjectgoatsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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