Geographical Factors Affecting the Distribution of Livestock, Minia Governorate - Egypt as an Example

Abstract

This research is specialized in studying The Geographical Factors affecting the Distribution of Livestock, Minia Governorate - Egypt as an Example, which includes:

1. Planted zipper, the agricultural lands have been subjected to the expansion of urban activities, which leads to the existence of agricultural lands exploited in other non-agricultural activities, it also addresses, the relationship of planted zipper with animal species, together with the call for horizontal agricultural expansion is vital as one aspect of economic development.
2. Agricultural tenures which is also a basis for the production of food for humans, animals and industrial services through the type of land used, which is closely related to the costs of crop and yield production.
3. Crop structure addresses the relationship between the composition of the crop and the types of feed and the amount and thus the amount of its contribution to the development of livestock.
4. Agricultural Employment represents the effort in agricultural production, the impact of agricultural labor on the distribution of animals, and the size of agricultural labor.
5. Agricultural mechanization for the liberalization of the animal from agricultural work and its transformation into its main objective, it addresses Geographical distribution of agricultural machinery.
6. Environmental factors and animal breeds, that the animals and their products are affected by the characteristics of the geographical environment. Animal breeds includes: Cows, Buffalo, Camels, Sheep and Goats.
7. Government Policies which aims at increasing livestock production and aims at structural changes in the animal economic structure.