Annals of Agriculture and Environment

Barriers to Dairy Farming Development in South Punjab, Pakistan

Muhammad Zeeshan

Department of Agricultural Extension, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Panjab

Badar Naseem Siddiqui

Department of Agricultural Extension, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Panjab

Syed Mufeed Hadi Naqvi

The University of Agriculture Peshawar

https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3885-5387

Raheel Saqib

Department of Agricultural Extension, Education and Communication, The University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan

Muhammad Ali

Department of Agricultural Extension, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Muhammad Rameez Akram

Department of Agricultural Extension, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Keywords: Agriculture Extension, Dairy Farming, Livestock management, Pakistan

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Abstract

Livestock considered as an important pillar of agriculture sector and added the most important role in international economy of world since the beginning of world. Rearing of animals and manufacturing of different dairy products are one of the major achievements of human beings. Livestock sector is very important part for economic development of any country. Both private and public sector have vital role in obtaining useful changes. Private sector has a productive role in bringing the changes in economic development of country but policy have been structured and implemented by provincial government. Keeping in view the importance of livestock and diary present study was conducted to overview the problem faced by farming community of southern Punjab in dairy development. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted for the selection of the respondents. Two tehsils were selected purposively from the district Layyah. i.e. Layyah and Karor-Lal-Eason due to low production of meat and milk. Eighty (80) livestock owners from Layyah tehsil and Eighty (80) from Karor-Lal-Eason tehsil were selected by using random sampling technique to complete the (160) respondents. Most (42.5%) of the respondents were belonged to the age group of (35 to 50) years (middle) and slightly more than one-fourth (28.8%) of the respondents were young (up-to 35 years). About one-third (31.9%) of the respondents were educated up to primary level. Majority (90.6%) of the respondents were small farmers and they possessed landholding (up to 12.5) acres. Majority (83.8%) of the respondents were earned (5,00,000) PKR from livestock annually. Large (71.2 to 77.5%) of the respondents faced problems regarding skilled labor, trainings, medicines, technology, transport, prices, preservation, maintenance cost and cattle disease. On the other hand near about half (39.3 to 50.6%) of the respondents also faced problems during livestock practices like shortage of green fodder, irrigational facilities, loan facilities, future policies, time, cross breed, high yielding breeds, milk production and lack of motivations. Prices, poverty, middle man, skills, technology, loan, milk storage, cost, cattle diseases veterinary clinic and preservation facility having ranking order is (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd,4^th, 5^th, 6^th, 7^th, 8^th, 9^th and 10^th) and their weighted score is (475-416).