Studies on the nomadic pastoralism of Mongolia, 3: A study of trends in livestock population after the completion of collectivization of nomads in 1959
1990
Miaki, T. (Miyazaki Univ. (Japan). Faculty of Agriculture)
To study the trends in livestock population after the completion of collectivization of nomads in 1959, the 24 years between 1963 and 1986 were divided every three values of three years for livestock numbers of camels, horses, cattle, sheep and goats were compared among the eight periods. The total number of livestock (livestock population) and young stock numbers of each of four livestock species except for cattle declined in the second period (1966-68), stock. The cattle population increased along with the number of young stock. The cattle population increased along with the number of its young stock. The patterns of change in livestock population and young stock numbers of the five species from the second period (1966-68) toward the eighth period (1984-86) may be classified into either the type of increase in livestock number or the type of decline. Cattle, sheep and goats belong to the former type, but the goat population did not reach the level of livestock numbers as was in the first period (1963-65), and cattle and numbers from the seventh period (1981-83). In sheep and goats, the rates of increase in number of young stock surpassed those in livestock population from the third period (1967-71) because the number of livestock slaughtered had expanded due to more demands for meat from year to year. Horses and camels belong to the type of decline. Their declines in population are probably due to mechanization and concentration on more adaptable regions for habitation
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