Livestock Farming Systems and Cattle Production Orientation in Eastern High Plains of Algeria, Cattle Farming System in Algerian Semi Arid Region
This study was an attempt to devise productive orientations of cattle herds in eastern high plains of Algeria. In this regard, 165 farms randomly identified were investigated. The selection of breeders was based to existence of cattle on the farm, and the farmer proposed to investigation must ha...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Islamic Azad University
2013-12-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Agricultural Management and Development |
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| Online Access: | http://webzoom.freewebs.com/ijamad/3%284%29/IJAMADDecember2013P237.pdf |
| Summary: | This study was an attempt to devise productive orientations
of cattle herds in eastern high plains of Algeria. In this
regard, 165 farms randomly identified were investigated. The
selection of breeders was based to existence of cattle on the
farm, and the farmer proposed to investigation must have at
least two cows. The approach taken was to identify all systems
adopted by farmers in a region through the analysis of the relationship
between the maintenance of different types of cattle
and preferred marketing policies. The model has been emerged
as a result of functional typology established using the procedure
categorical principal components analysis (CATPCA) of optimal
coding in SPSS [19. 2010]. Following this approach, five
types of cattle productive orientation have been identified, the
balanced mixed system (dairy-beef), beef mixed system, dairy
mixed system, dairy system and beef system. These results
showed that the breeders were oriented towards specialization
(dairy or beef) in less than 20% of situations. Farmers in our
context prefer mixed systems when beef mixed system was
the model type frequently encountered in the region (over than
50% of farms). |
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| ISSN: | 2159-5852 2159-5860 |