Empowerment through Goat Rearing and Poultry Entrepreneurship among Rural Poor Women

Abstract

Rural women play an important role in the creation of jobs, but only in their backyards. Poultry and goat rearing can be a valuable weapon in the battle against hunger, not just for the poor, but also for the poor women, as poultry needs little property, money, and ability. Raising of poultry, goat and sheep is totally under the control of rural women. Livelihoods are not simply a localized phenomenon, but are linked to broader national, regional, and global arenas through environmental, economic, political, and cultural processes. This purposed study is planned to identify that how women help themselves by micro-entrepreneurship and attain their needs by doing goat rearing and backyard poultry farming. Multistage sampling technique were applied for the selection of respondents. At first stage, one tehsil (Faisalabad Sadar) were selected randomly from Faisalabad. At second stage, 3 union councils (UC Chak-66/JB, UC Chak-200/RB& UC Chak-247/RB) were selected randomly from the selected tehsil. At third stage, two villages from each UC were selected randomly such as Chak # 66/JB and 64/JB from UC-66/JB, Chak # 200/RB & 205/RB from UC-200/RB and Chak # 247 & Chak # 246/RB from UC-247/RB. At the last stage 80 respondents (13 from 4 villages of UC Chak-66/JB, UC Chak-200/RB and 14 from two villages of UC-247/RB) were selected randomly. The well-designed pre-tested interview schedule was used for data collection. Descriptive and inferential statistical techniques were used to analyze the data. Adequate training must be given to the rural women at the farm level and guidance at all stages can be effective ways to cope with the problems in poultry and livestock management that hinder in entrepreneurship.