A geographical study of livestock resources in Goa 1988-2016

Abstract

Livestock is one of the prominent resources, people soon realised the importance of livestock (animals) in their life and started to domesticate to fulfill the needs of multiple nature from the resource. The rearing of domesticated and semi domesticated animals has prominent expectations of direct and indirect nature viz dairy, farm activities, food, industry related products i.e. wool, fur, hair, feather etc. to extract and to satisfy the needs. This resource plays avital role in the lively hood of people in general and economic development of the people of a region/nation in particular. Moreover, the demand for protein derived from livestock products added more attention towards the resource in the world, which account for about two-thirds output in the developed as well as developing world apart from economic and cultural role in a region.The study area displays selectivelivestock resources and its distribution i.e. cattle, buffaloes, pigs, and other animals. One of the reasons was to explore spatial distribution and growth within the taluks. The presence of livestock in the state had noticed variation in bothfrom 1988 - 2016.The prevailing facts reveal that talukawise and year wise distribution of livestock in the state confined to interior taluks vizSattari, Sanguem, Canacona and Quepem. In these taluks rearing of livestock was meant for farm activities, later on the attention of the people leads to intensify the same to get gainful employment and to supplement the economic standard through milk, manure, and sale at the time of urgency. In course of time people found out the scope in dairy farming, market-based livestock rearing with the incentives by the government, and cooperation by the fellow people etc have led people of the rural settlements to explore the resource. Keywords: Livestock; resource distribution spatial/temporal variation