Food Security and Livestock Linkages in Three Major Livestock Husbandry Districts of Punjab, Pakistan

Authors

  • Bilal Arif Government of Punjab, Pakistan
  • Arshad Mahmood Malik PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan
  • Nasim Akhtar Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Mirpur AJK, Pakistan.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52131/joe.2022.0401.0068

Keywords:

Livestock, Food security , Small animals, Large animals, Small scale farmers, Pakistan

Abstract

The basic intention of the current study is to explore the association between livestock husbandry and domestic food security (accessibility) of small farmers in three major districts of province Punjab Pakistan, namely Gujranwala, Narowal and Hafiz Abad, using primary data of 180 respondents collected using structured questionnaire through proportionate stratified random sampling. Livestock is an essential contributor and supplier to the food and nutritional security and works as a vital source of employment and occupation. Livestock has a substantial role in employment generation, cash income generation, a decline of poverty and food safety in rural areas of overall Pakistan and the districts under study. To measure the effectiveness of livestock ownership on rural food security in three major districts of Punjab, Pakistan, the OLS regression model has been utilized along with dependent variable of food security (accessibility) and independent variables of family size, income comes from livestock, education of the head and a total number of earners. The outcomes of this study reveal that independent variables, i.e., incomes from livestock, a total number of earners, education and family size, have a significant positive relationship with the dependent variable of food security (accessibility), which means improvement in all the explanatory variables is a quite helpful tool to boost the food security situation of the area under discussion.

Author Biographies

Bilal Arif, Government of Punjab, Pakistan

Department of Economics and Marketing

Arshad Mahmood Malik, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Agri. Economics

Nasim Akhtar, Mirpur University of Science and Technology, Mirpur AJK, Pakistan.

Assistant Professor

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Published

2022-03-31

How to Cite

Arif, B., Malik, A. M., & Akhtar, N. . (2022). Food Security and Livestock Linkages in Three Major Livestock Husbandry Districts of Punjab, Pakistan. IRASD Journal of Economics, 4(1), 141–148. https://doi.org/10.52131/joe.2022.0401.0068

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