The Economics of Animal Production of Household Garden

This research concerns about the contribution of household garden animal production economics in improving household life conditions. The objective of this research is to investigate the inputs, outputs and processing economics of animal production in households’ gardens. Questionnaire used for data collection. The questionnaire included four major parts including the characteristics of household people, the inputs, outputs and processing activities of household animal breeding. The population divided into six strata according to household income. A random sample selected of each stratum. The results showed that the household animal breeding species dependent on garden size. In large gardens, the livestock activities dominated. The income gained of animal activities included a wide range of products for poultry and livestock.


Introduction
Household gardens through economical perspective contribute in improving the household living standards (S.Mazumdar & S. Mazumdar, 2011).Household gardening would contribute to provide family with daily food requirements, as well as improve household income and provide job opportunities for workers (Kobayashi et al., 2010).Animal breeding considered one of the household activities that practiced in sub-urban and rural areas in developing countries, where household health improved through the consumption of animal production locally or the returns of products sale for the external society.In Jordan, marketing the animal production of household production attracted wide sector of local society.
In some countries including Jordan, animal breeding through household gardens is considered as good economic activity that alleviate the poverty especially in suburban areas.Some social organizations fund such activities to improve family income and improve the household capabilities to access food (Galhena et al., 2013;Rodrigue et al., 2015).
Economically, households' gardens activities should carry in a way that accomplishes new values for families and encourage the family to continue practicing these activities (Igue et al., 2000).The extent of success of garden economically depends mainly on the way the family looking for the garden.The more serious thinking of gardens as a business will increase its potential and improve its continuity and sustainability (Coomes et al., 2004;Trinth et al., 2003;Watson et al., 2002).
Animal production includes livestock and poultry activities, which form integrated sources of food for family and garden economic activities (Thaman, 1995).These two sources provide families with milk, red meat and white meat that integrate the animal protein sources.The breeding of livestock in household gardens requires high space due to the nature of livestock, while poultry breeding requires less space and can be breed with large numbers (Pulami et al., 2004).Wide variety of animal products produced through livestock and poultry will increase the possibility of practicing local economic activities to sell products for local markets (Vasey, 1985;Ali, 2005;Jannolti et al., 2009).Despite the fact that livestock and poultry contributes to family, the returns of both activities differs widely due to wide prices of products (Marsh, 1998;Danoesastro, 1980;Devendra & Thomas, 2002).Moreover, households use the manure produced of animal activities as fertilizer for sell or local use.

Methodology
Recently, the household garden production became one of the economic solutions to improve household income and nutritive value (Legesse et al., 2016).The objective of this paper is to investigate the household returns of The collec Each secti activities.expenses i

Conclusions
The objective of this research is to investigate the returns of animal breeding in household gardens.Questionnaire used for data collection.The study household population divided to six strata.The first five strata classified according to household income in urban areas, while the sixth stratum was for gardens in suburban areas.The questionnaire included questions about the pattern of household garden, input for animal production and the returns classified according to the type of activities.
The results showed that the household families are very interested in practicing animal production activities in their households' gardens and sustain these activities because of its positive effect on their The households' gardens of animal production distributed on wide range areas in urban and suburban areas.Animal production species affected directly by gardens' location, size, household income, and type of animals preferred by household members.
All sizes of gardens achieved considerable profit from animal production in all strata.Moreover, the returns of gardens increased as the size of garden increases.The highest concern in small gardens' areas was to invest in chicken eggs production and pigeons due to the small area required to run activities.In large area gardens especially stratum six, the concern for sheep and goat breeding was higher and so the returns for the processing and newborn of these activities higher compared to other strata.The results showed that the households insist to expend on animal breeding activities using their own funding sources.Very small number of household used external sources to fund their activities.Moreover, the results showed that the households search for every possible tools to enrich their experience in breeding animals in their households' gardens.
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