Name: Abdurehman Amir.

Class: 7-E
School: Beacon house School system (PECHS)

TOPIC: LIVESTOCK FARMING.

DEFINITION: LIVESTOCK FARMING IS SIMPLY THE MANAGEMENT AND BREEDING OF

DOMESTIC, LIVESTOCK OR FARM ANIMALS FOR THE PURPOSE OF OBTAINING THEIR MEAT
AND PRODUCTS (MILK, EGGS, LEATHER, ETC.). IT CAN ALSO BE DESCRIBED AS THE
ECONOMIC ACTIVITY THAT INVOLVES RAISING DOMESTIC ANIMALS FOR HUMAN
CONSUMPTION AND OBTAINING MEAT, MILK, WOOL, FUR, HONEY, AMONG OTHERS.
Advantages:
It generates high-quality food products such as meat, egg, milk, cheese, etc.
It is one of the few human productive economic activities that are truly sustainable.
It generates employment opportunities and serves as a source of income
It can help a country to generate foreign exchange earnings through the export of
livestock products.
Other local economic sectors benefit directly or indirectly from its activity: food
processing industries, handicrafts, tourism and hospitality.
Disadvantages of livestock farming are:
Intensive farming doesn’t take animal welfare into its profit equation.
Greenhouse gas emissions are significant from factory farms
Animals on factory farms have their movements restricted.
The mesh floors on factory farms can hurt the feet of the animals.
Chickens and livestock become an unnatural size.
Pakistan’s Performance.
The overall performance of the agricultural sector recorded a growth of 2.9% in 2014–
2015. However, the growth rate of livestock was recorded at 4.1%, crops at 1.0%,
forestry at 3.3% and fishing at 5.8%. ... Pakistan has a total population of 165.51 million
with a yearly growth rate of 2.6%.
Opportunity\Threat
Pakistan is considered among the leading raw milk producing countries. Unlike the production systems in
the developed countries, milk production systems in Pakistan represent smallholding with subsistence- or
market-oriented-level farming followed by peri-urban or commercial-level farming. Historically, dairy
sector has been owned and managed by the private sector. During the past two decades, new initiatives
have been taken because of the active involvement of corporate private sector. These efforts have resulted
in improvements like enlargement of herds and import of high-quality milk germ plasm, the productivity
per animal, milk collection, processing and marketing, the supply of dairy inputs (machinery, equipment,
feeds, semen, and elite dairy animals), and farmers knowledge, and skills on modern management
practices. Conclusively, the dairy sector is performing at some sustainable level to meet the food
requirements of the growing population and helping save a handful of foreign exchange. Yet, challenges
like local replacements of high genetic potential dairy animals