Journal of Rangeland

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Traditional animal husbandry is one of the main livelihoods of the villagers. Due to the current lack of profitability of animal husbandry in steppe, arid and desert rangelands, the villagers were reluctant to keep it healthy and graze livestock in an appropriate manner. Consequently destruction of rangelands and reduction of activities put the rangelands in recession. So, the goal of this research is analysis of factors affecting livestock recession in terms of economic, social, managerial and ecological factors, in Yazd steppe rangelands using the experts points of views. The statistical population of the research consists of a total of 40 professionals, natural resources experts, faculty members of the university, the agricultural research and training center of the province and experienced range managers. Using Expert Choice software and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), the final weight of the main factors and sub-criteria were identified and ranked. Among the studied factors, livestock income of economic index, the tendency of young people to non-agricultural occupations from social index, forage shortages due to overgrazing from management index and drought item of ecological index having weights of 0.041, 0.43, 0.029 and 0.118 respectively and are the most important indicators affecting the recession of traditional animal husbandry. Results suggests: providing low interest’s loan, job creation in other non-agricultural sectors , allocation of subsidies to livestock products and extensive advertising for selling organic animal products.

Keywords: Recession, Traditional Animal Husbandry, Hierarchical Analysis, Experts, Yazd Steppe Rangelands

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