Abstract
In Musakhel and Barkhan districts of Balochistan and along
the western slopes of the main
Sulaiman mountain range, Baloch tribes raise animals, mainly sheep
and goat, on rangelands that are commonly owned. This paper
looks into the impact of economic forces such as income, prices,
interest rates, and taxes on an individual animal raiser’s behavior
towards resource use and productivity. An individual animal raiser’s
behavior towards resource use expressed in number of animals
raised per unit of rangeland/stocking rates/use rates, directly
impacts rangeland productivity or carrying capacity because the
rangelands in Balochistan are generally overgrazed. Under such
overgrazed conditions an increase in stocking/use rates leads to a
decrease in range carrying capacity or productivity and a decrease
in stocking/use rates leads to an increase in carrying capacity or
productivity of the rangelands. The paper analyzes changes in
economic forces that lead to changes in animal raiser behavior and
changes in animal raiser behavior that lead to changes in range
carrying capacity and productivity.
Nek Buzdar. (2014) The Impact of Economic Forces on Resource Use, State of Conservation, and Productivity of Rangelands in Northeastern Balochistanr, Hankén , Volume 6, Issue 1.
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