Marketing Restraints in small Ruminant's Production with Special Reference to their Impact on Livestock Business Development of Balochistan, Pakistan

Author: Muhammad Shafiq*, Tayyaba Safdar**, Asma Azhar**, Zubia Masood*** and Zahoor Ahmed Bahzai****

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Abstract

The basic objective of the present study was to investigate the constraints of livestock marketing that can directly influence on the livestock business development as well as in the economy of Province Balochistan, Pakistan. In this study, convenience sampling technique was used to collect the data through five scale Linker self-constructed questionnaires during the period from January 2015 to December 2015. The obtained results were indicating that marketing constraints in small ruminants' production is producing difficulties, particularly to the small ruminants holders (SRH) of Balochistan. Though, large area of Balochistan is included in arid or semi-arid zones, so a bulk of the local population is betrothed in livestock rearing activities, however, because of their primitive marketing practices, still they do not get their outstanding yields. Hence, present study is focusing on computing the difficulties in marketing of small ruminants, which ultimately obstructing the development

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marketing of small ruminants, restraints, livestock holders, Balochistan.

Conclusion

The primary purpose of this study was to develop and to test a model that examines the relationship of small ruminants' marketing constraint to profit of small ruminants. The study found out that a number of constraints are positively influencing the progress and development by increasing the difficulties to SRH. The results of this study provide considerable insight into the in order to determine the small ruminants' significant to the economy of Balochistan. Hence, the test of model indicates that the, marketing and constraints do not let the livestock sector to flourish. The study also indicates empirical sign of the effect of livelihood of small ruminants' holders is interrupted by the various marketing constraints in the province. This means the quality of livestock activities can be flourish by eliminating the inaccessibility to market, middlemen role, price constraints, market competition and difficulties to small ruminants' holders. Thus, the study provides guidelines to suppo

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Muhammad Shafiq*, Tayyaba Safdar**, Asma Azhar, Zubia Masood and Zahoor Ahmed Bahzai (2017). Marketing Restraints in small Ruminant's Production with Special Reference to their Impact on Livestock Business Development of Balochistan, Pakistan , Biolog