What do you think is the main concern of a livestock raiser?

1. What is the problem with raising livestock?
2. What is the importance of livestock raising?
3. What is raising of livestock?
4. What are the effects of bad livestock management?
5. What are 3 major issues in the production livestock industry?
6. Why is raising animals important?
7. What means animal raising?
8. What is the main reason for raising animals in agriculture?
9. What are the disadvantages of livestock farming?
10. What are the disadvantages of keeping livestock together?
11. What effects do livestock have on land?
12. How does raising cattle affect the environment?
13. How animal agriculture affects our planet?
14. What is the problem of animal production?

What is the problem with raising livestock?

A new report from FAO says livestock production contributes to the world's most pressing environmental problems, including global warming, land degradation, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity.

What is the importance of livestock raising?

Livestock helps on food supply, family nutrition, family income, asset savings, soil productivity, livelihoods, transport, agricultural traction, agricultural diversification and sustainable agricultural production, family and community employment, ritual purposes and social status (Moyo et al 2010).

What is raising of livestock?

Animal husbandry is the branch of agriculture concerned with animals that are raised for meat, fibre, milk, or other products. It includes day-to-day care, selective breeding and the raising of livestock. ... Modern animal husbandry relies on production systems adapted to the type of land available.

What are the effects of bad livestock management?

Intensive feed-crop production can lead to severe land degradation, water pollution and biodiversity losses, while expanding arable land into natural ecosystems often has serious ecological consequences, including the loss of biodiversity and of ecosystem services such as water regulation and erosion control.

What are 3 major issues in the production livestock industry?

There are three big environmental issues with the production of meat - feed sourcing, manure processing, and climate change. Raising meat takes vast quantities of feed. Millions of acres have been plowed over for large, monoculture crop fields dedicated to feeding livestock.

Why is raising animals important?

Animal products not only represent a source of high-quality food, but, equally important, they are a source of income for many small farmers in developing countries, for purchasing food as well as agricultural inputs, such as seed, fertilizers and pesticides.

What means animal raising?

animal husbandry, Controlled cultivation, management, and production of domestic animals, including improvement of the qualities considered desirable by humans by means of breeding. Animals are bred and raised for utility (e.g., food, fur), sport, pleasure, and research. See also beekeeping, dairy farming.

What is the main reason for raising animals in agriculture?

Livestock agriculture is concerned with raising and maintaining livestock, primarily for the purposes of producing meat, milk, and eggs. Livestock agriculture also includes wool and leather production and may include animals kept for recreation (riding or racing) and draft.

What are the disadvantages of livestock farming?

2. It can lead to overcrowding due to the fact that animals are kept in holding facilities which can lead to pollution and break out of diseases and infection. 3. The use of chemical fertilizers contaminates soil and water bodies such as lakes and rivers.

What are the disadvantages of keeping livestock together?

detrimental to animal welfare, 2) controlled by corporate interests, 3) motivated merely by profit rather than by traditional animal care values, 4) causing increased world hunger, 5) producing unhealthy food, and 6) impairing the environment.

What effects do livestock have on land?

Livestock farming has a vast environmental footprint. It contributes to land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration and deforestation. Nowhere is this impact more apparent than climate change – livestock farming contributes 18% of human produced greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.

How does raising cattle affect the environment?

Beef production has a considerable effect on climate change due to emissions of greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide. Research shows that ruminant livestock account for between 7% and 18% of global methane emissions from human-related activities.

How animal agriculture affects our planet?

Animal agriculture is the second largest contributor to human-made greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions after fossil fuels and is a leading cause of deforestation, water and air pollution and biodiversity loss.

What is the problem of animal production?

Some of the important environmental issues that impact livestock production include global warming, tropical deforestation, water-use issues, rangelands and desertification, and livestock-wildlife interactions. These issues are discussed.