Abstract:
Abstract
This study aimed to identify the aspects of living for the rural family and how
to raise the standard of living to increase their income through a project to
improve goats local breeds in ELRahad Abu Dakana locality in North Kordofan
State . This is on
e of the projects executed by the Ministry of Agriculture animal
resource and Irrigation, and financed by (IFAD) West Sudan (Organization
dispatch ) The improvement process was don’t through importing foreign
breeds of goads with high productive qualities
to produce milk and meat by
improved local breeds of goats in the areas.
a quota sample of 60 families were chosen which were the total of research
population.
The social
Survey methodology was used for research .Primary data was
collected through
questionnaires ,personal interviews and observation ,which
secondary data was collected from books reports ,previous related research
and the inter net .The collected data was analysed by the programmer of
statistical packages for social Sciences (SPSS
) and chi
-
square at value of (0,05) .
The research gave number of results some of which are
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:
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62 % of respondents were women who benefited from the project .
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87% of respondents fall in the age bracket of 15 to 45 years .
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89% of resp
ondents were married .
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60% of respondents were poor having a monthly income less than 250
Sudanese pound for the family
.
•
All respondents assured the excellence of improved breeds compared to
local breed as to the production of milk and meat and th
e number of springs
.
•
97% of respondents assured the improvement of these living standard after
the project .
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Based on the results of the research number of recommendations
were suggested , some of which are
:
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It is hoped that the financing agencies to give more financial support to
those income generating projects to inched new areas out of EL Rahad
Ab
u
dakana area and hope fully to cover other areas in Sudan , The
support is more needed in areas of water h
arvesting for human and
animal use in addition digging wells and raising water .
the Ministry of Education , animal resource and Irrigation has to give
more effect to encourage more farmers to adopt the improvement of
their . local breeds as an importan
t source to increase production and
hence income , Youth have to be encouraged to go into these project as
they have initiative and activity .
more training sessions have to be arranged to all beneficiaries' especially
woman who have to be given more chan
ces for training socially ,
economically and culturally
To beneficiaries should get rid of the non
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productive goats , as well as
males and replaced with good productivity females , encouraging
beneficiaries to make sheds suitable for rearing goa
ts and separate the
improved goats from the rest of the cattle