LIVESTOCK
Livestock means domestic animals breeding in an agricultural environment to provide labor and produce products such as meat, eggs, milk, leather, and wool. Animals are raised for breeding and sometimes used to refer to farms like cattle, goats, sheep, and horses. However, horses are considered livestock in the USA. Livestock farming has largely exceeded day by day. Particularly, dairy, poultry, beef, and sheep are an outsized source of a greenhouse. Breeding maintenance, slaughter, and diseases of livestock are also known as animal husbandry. Animal husbandry practices widely according to culture and time periods. It plays a major economic and cultural role in communities.
Growth of market and international trade
Cattle markets are essential for exchanging goods and services in all societies. Improvement of market institutions allows excellent scope for division of labor, increases production efficiency, and growth of income sources. In rural areas, markets are developed in the limited infrastructure of roads, railways, and general stands. Markets for livestock and their products allow specialization in the production and exchanges of staple food crops. Most farms and households continue to produce requirements and are also engaged in the production of the market.
Economics importance
Source of Protein
Source of Income
Source of raw material
Use as a game
Source of revenue
Source of manpower to do work on the farm
Source of manure
Source of biogas
Sources of foreign exchanges
Use for religious purposes
Use to display one wealth.
Livestock resources
Food
Livestock provides food items like Milk, Eggs, Meat, and skin for the uses of human consumption. India is the world’s largest milk producer. Almost 156 million tons of milk in a year are supplied worldwide. Similarly, it produces about 74 billion eggs. Eight million tonnes of meat in a year.
Drafts
Bullock is the backbone of all agriculture fields. In rural areas, farmers totally depend upon bullock for various agriculture operations. Bullocks saved a lot of fuel which is a necessary input for using tractors, turbines, and harvesters.
Fiber and skin
Livestock contributes to the production of hair, wool, and skin. Leather is the most important product which exports all around the world.
Cultural
Livestock needs security for the owners and also self-esteem especially are owning animals such as bullocks, dogs, cows, horses, and buffaloes.
Companion animals
Dogs and horses are known for their faithfulness and are also used as companions. When families are increasing, a large number are forced to lead solitary life; the dogs and horses are needed for the latter, making them lead a comfortable life.
Weed control
Livestock is also used as biological control of brushes, weeds, water, and plants.
Characteristics of community livestock
The animal product is usually exported for both domestic and foreign markets.
Commercially leads to the growth of towns that act as slaughtering, processing, and packing centers.
Transport networks such as roads and railways are set up to link the ranches to towns.
There is no migration. Because food supplies are permanent or are temporary by fodder crops. The ranches may be large, but the ranchers live in permanent houses.
Fields are scientifically managed, high-quality animals are reared through selective breeding, and shortages of pastures are supplemented by the cultivation of feedstuffs.
There is continuous cover of green pastures of either native grasses or selected grasses, for example, alfalfa, Lucerne, and clovers.
