TY - JOUR JF - JSTNAR JO - jwss VL - 12 IS - 45 PY - 2008 Y1 - 2008/10/01 TI - Factors Affecting Pasture and Meat Production Imbalance in Fars Province: A Case Study of Koohnamak Pastures in Darab TT - عوامل مؤثر بر عدم تعادل دام و مرتع در استان فارس: مطالعه موردی مراتع کوه نمک شهرستان داراب N2 - In the process of agricultural development, sustainability of pasture utilization to ensure sustained production of meat and dairy products has become increasingly important. This article aims to study factors affecting pasture and meat production imbalances in Fars province. For this purpose, the transcendental production function was used. Data was collected by using two stage cluster random sampling from 71 producers. The results revealed that present method of pasture utilization is not compatible with increasing live animal meat production objective. To optimize pasture utilization, the pasture users should be advised to stop overgrazing. In addition, the results indicated that increasing livestock and pasture mismanagement causes damage to pastures and consequently would decrease meat production in the long-run. SP - 673 EP - 683 AU - Najafi, B. AU - Shirvanian, A. AU - Haghshenas, T. AD - KW - Pasture utilization KW - Imbalance KW - Meat production KW - Darab. UR - http://jstnar.iut.ac.ir/article-1-951-en.html ER -