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• TITLE: Small Ruminant Production and Marketing Practices in Harawa, Somali Region, Ethiopia

  AUTHORS: Samatar Abshir Mahamed, Hawa Yusuf Ali

  KEYWORDS: Constraints, Harawa, Marketing, Production, Small Ruminant

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Animal Sciences, Vol.13 No.2, April 23, 2023

  ABSTRACT: Small ruminant production is an essential component of agricultural activity for smallholder farmers. The aim of this study was to assess small ruminant production and marketing practices in the Harawa district of Somali Region, Ethiopia. For the study 90 households owning small ruminant were selected from three different towns of Harawa district. Information on sheep and goat ownership patterns, production objectives, and management and production constraints were collected from 90 households using semi structured questionnaires. The available feed resources are grass species, crop aftermath and legumes species are the common ones. The average family size was 5.78 ± 0.235 persons per household. Crop-livestock farming was the commonly used farming system with (62.75%) extensive and (27.25%) semi-intensive production system. The mean total land holding was 6.08 ± 0.24 ha per HH and was significantly (P is important.