An assessment of the Links Between Livestock Ownership and Area Cultivated
1990
Getachew Yoseph (Addis Abeba University (Ethiopia) Department of Economics)
In this endeavour, an attempt was made to see if there is some kind of relationship between: (i) the number of cattle owned and area cultivated, (ii) Sales of cattle due to drought vis-a-vis area cultivated prior to the drought, and (iii) the degree of participation in other secondary occupations in relation to area brought under cultivation. The study was based on the responses of 389 households who were reselted in Gambela and Metekel from parts of the drought-prone regions (Shewa, Wello, Gojjam and Tigray) following the 1984/85 drought. The results showed that the number of cattle owned has only some degree of bearing on area cultivated (r equal to 0.040); those peasants with relatively smaller area of cultivated land tended to sell relatively more of their cattle (as high as 31.6); and the degree of participation in other activities witnessed no general pattern but proved to be more important for those peasants who cultivated less than 1.5 hectars (28).
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