Characteristics of sheep farming sector and its development in Latvia
2014
Ozolins, I., Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia)
The research aim was to study the development of sheep farming sector in Latvia and to appraise the current situation of the sheep farming sector in Latvia. The following methods were used - method of analysis, analysis of regulatory enactments, monographic or descriptive, graphical methods, content analysis, and statistical analysis - to analyse the research so that it would be possible to achieve the aims and to accomplish the tasks defined in the study. As a result, the research provides characteristics of the sheep farming sector and analysis of the historical development in Latvia, description of the figures of sheep industry in Latvian agriculture and assessment of the information and statistical data on production of the sheep farming sector on both domestic and foreign markets. This study has reflected laws and regulations governing the processes of sheep farming sector in Latvia. This study uses data of Agricultural Data Centre of Latvia and the Central Statistical Bureau on sheep farming from 2008 to 2013. It has been found that one of the main problems in the sector in Latvia is small total number of sheep. High fragmentation of the farms and insufficient total volume of production is the cause for import of products of the sheep industry. Positively that sheep farming is one of the fastest growing sectors of agriculture in Latvia, as indicated by the number of sheep on 1 July 2013 – 99412 sheep, or an increase of 22% compared with 1 July 2008, when 76877 sheep were registered in Latvia.
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