In its broadest sense the livestock refers to that owned or related to livestock.
Activity dedicated to raising livestock
Also, the term is used to refer to the economic activity of livestock.
The cattle ranch, is next to the agriculture, a very old activity that consists of the raising animals for edible consumption and for subsequent economic use.
It is part of the primary sector of the economy
Livestock is undoubtedly one of the most important sectors within agricultural activities and also belongs to the primary sector of economies. The secondary sector deals with transforming raw materials into manufacturing and the tertiary is made up of services.
As with all primary activities in economies, the objective of the livestock sector is the production of raw materials.
Millennial activity that man practiced to eat and shelter, then gave way to an economic business
Livestock activity has developed throughout the world since the earliest times. Primitive man practiced it to feed themselves and in this way to survive, and also exploited it to take advantage of the leather and skin of animals to shelter and protect themselves from the cold and other inclement weather. Hunting was the methodology that these men of old used to provide themselves with both things: food and shelter.
By this we mean that livestock activity is certainly millennial.
Depending on the livestock, that is, the set of animals that are raised, different derivative products such as milk, meat, leather, eggs, honey, wool, among others, can be obtained and sold.
So, they can also be distinguished different types of livestock depending on the species that are exploited. To the most recurrent and common such as cattle, sheep, pigs and goats you can add some other less common but no less important, such as the rabbit farming (rabbit farming), poultry farming (poultry farming), beekeeping (extensive farming of one type of insect).
Inside of the cattle two types can be differentiated, domestic or zebu (with a hump on the back) and bullfighting (without a hump). This type of cattle is raised in almost the entire extension of the planet earth, mainly for the meat, milk and leather that it provides. Meanwhile, another still recurring use is in bullfighting shows. The female is called as cow and the male bull; the young that is born of both will be called calves or calves. There are infinities of breeds that have very particular characteristics and that are therefore more suitable to breed in certain regions.
Then we meet at sheep (sheep) and goats (goats), which were among the first species to be domesticated. In the case of sheep, the female is called sheep and the male ram; and within the goats is the goat (female) and the goat (male). Both are used primarily meat, milk, to make cheese, goat cheese is well known, also skin and wool, such is the case of sheep.
And from swine (pigs) Its meat, its fat, which is also edible, the skin will also be used in the first instance for the manufacture of the leather and the bristles with which most of the brushes with which we comb our hair are made. The wildest ancestor of pigs is the wild boar.
The raising of livestock is closely linked to the needs, production capacity and physical conditions of a territory, such is the case of climate, relief, water, among others, for example, is that some nations are concerned with produce a certain species and not others, that is, they produce those that adapt to current conditions and put aside those that would not survive, because the idea is that the activity is profitable.
The Asian, African and South American continents are the places in the world that produce the greatest amount of livestock raw materials. They are not only raised for the large domestic consumption that exists in these places but also for export and thus obtain good dividends that represent a large part of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Argentina, for example, is one of the countries that stands out the most in the production of livestock, beef for example, because its inhabitants are large consumers of beef and also produce it for export.
Argentina is famous in the world for its meat and that is why tourists who come from parts of the world where it is not so common or so tasty, the first thing they do is visit a restaurant that offers this menu.
