Question.
Differentiate between Nomadic Herding and Commercial Livestock Rearing.
(Class 12 geography, Fundamentals of Human Geography, Chapter-5. Primary Activities )
Answer.
Both Nomadic Herding and commercial livestock rearing are primary economic activities that include animal husbandry.
However, there is a difference between nomadic animal husbandry and commercial livestock which are as follows:
Nomadic Herding is a primitive subsistence activity in which shepherds ( herders) raise animals for their own use for food, clothing, shelter, and transportation while commercial livestock rearing is commercial animal husbandry, and farmers rear animals to sell animal products in the market. Is.
Nomadic Herding is a traditional method of rearing livestock where shepherds ( Herders) move their livestock from place to place depending on the availability of pasture and the quantity and quality of water, whereas commercial livestock rearing is a more organized and capital-intensive form of animal husbandry.
Nomadic Herding communities have their own fixed grazing areas and pastoralists ( herders) lead a transhuman (nomadic) life (e.g. in the Himalayan region, herders move to hilly areas in summer and valleys in winter) while commercial livestock rearing is done in the vast area. The vast area of pastoralism is divided into several smaller areas that are called parcels. Each small area (parcel) is fenced in to regulate grazing; When the animals graze on the grass in one parcel, the animals are sent to graze in another parcel.
Nomadic Herding is practiced in arid and semi-arid regions of the world, such as the Himalayan region, the Arabian Peninsula, Mongolia, central China, the tundra region of Eurasia, and Southwest Africa, while Commercial livestock rearing is practiced in the grasslands of Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, and Uruguay.
Nomadic Herding involves rearing a variety of animals depending on the suitability of the climate such as cattle rearing in tropical Africa and sheep, goats, and camels in the Sahara and Asian deserts whereas commercial livestock rearing is a specialized activity where only one type of animal is reared.
Due to the determination of political boundaries and the implementation of new settlement schemes by various countries, the area of nomadic herding is decreasing, whereas this is not the case in commercial livestock rearing.
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