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.