TY  - JOUR
T1  - Factors Influencing Livestock Production Losses in Drought-Prone Semi-Arid 
  Region of South Africa: A Case Study of Limpopo River Basin
AU - Samuel Oyekale, Abayomi 
JO  - Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances
VL  - 11
IS  - 18
SP  - 3318
EP  - 3322
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1680-5593
DO  - javaa.2012.3318.3322
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=javaa.2012.3318.3322
KW  - Production losses
KW  -livestock
KW  -cattle
KW  -semi-arid
KW  -drought
AB  - Livestock constitute a major enterprise for income generation and storage of wealth in rural South Africa. In the Limpopo river basin, production is confronted with several climate-related factors among which localized or regional drought is of utmost importance. In this study, factors influencing losses of livestock (cattle) were analyzed. The data were collected by the International Food Policy Research Institute using multi-stage sampling procedure. Livestock farmers constitute 29.81% (237) of the total samples. The Tobit Regression Method was used for data analysis along with some simple descriptive methods.
ER  -