Quantitative and qualitative analysis of live sheep production from mass breeding system Part II. Slaughter value of live sheep and the analysis of conditions of the functioning of the sheep breeding sector
2013
Liśkiewicz, Marcin Józef | Gruszecki, Tomasz Maria | Greguła-Kania, Monika
The present paper continues the analysis of the conditions of live sheep production presented in Part I and focuses on the evaluation of the slaughter value of lambs. The slaughtervalue analysis of lambs produced in Poland was performed studying the quantitative and qualitative traits. The obtained results and those from previous researches served as a basis for SWOT analysis that allowed for an overall assessment of opportunities and threats of the functioning of the Polish sheep industry within the whole agricultural production system. The slaughter analysis indicates good quality of lamb carcasses produced in Lublin. The results indicate a number of weaknesses and threats which are obviously negative for the Polish sheep production sector but the present authors think that the strengths make the true potential of the sheep farming sector. Numerous points may be improved through all sorts of organizational decisions and administrative practices. An increase in the sheep population in Poland could also be beneficial contributing to active protection of the agricultural land against degradation. It is well known that we are losing vast areas of prime farmland and therefore, the sustainability of our farmland is a true challenge for the present and future landowners, while small ruminants, mainly sheep, are very useful in such situations. It should be stated that the activities initiated to improve the Polish sheep farming situation are arduous and require full commitment of both producers as well as state-run and selfgoverning institutions engaged in these problems. It seems, though, that steady and consistentefforts are the key to improve the situation in the sheep production not only in the Lublin region but in all Poland as well.
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