Abstract
Domestic farming has a great contribution in rural agriculture, livestock and
dairy sectors of Pakistan. Their help ranges from the crop and livestock production to cottage
industry. The women in rural societies of Pakistan deliver many farm duties especially in the
Punjab province, anterior Sindh, KP, Gilgat-Baltistan and Baluchistan. In the hilly areas men
and women of the rural community use the donkeys for daily practice work like fetching water,
collection of firewood for domestic use and sale in the nearby local market to cope their daily
needs. The present study was carried out in three different rural towns of Dera Ismail khan
district of KP in the year 2016, where the house hold community members male and female
keeping animals to cope their livelihood needs. By restoring proportionate sampling each
group was comprised of 30 males 30 females. Animal’s owners were selected for the purpose
of this study as the representative samples of the area by personal interviewing of respondents
and observations regarding different pack animals i.e. camel, bull, horses/ mules and donkey.
Score from female respondents by different pack animals i.e. camel, bull, horses/ mules and
donkey receive were 33.67±2.55, 29±1.00, 29.52±2.52 and 58.67±2.082 respectively (% means
± Standard deviation), while from male respondents with the % means ± Standard deviation of
34.67±6.43, 35.00±1.00, 36.00±2.65, 44.33±4.041 respectively.
Muhammad Shuaib Khan, Shakeeb Ullah, Nisha. A.R, Muhammad Umar, Muhammad Inamullah Malik, Syed Muhammad Kamal Shah, A. Zaman, Shakir Ullah, Imdad Ullah, Sumera Ali Khan. (2020) Donkeys as an Alternate Domestic Pack-animal in the Arid Zone of Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan, Punjab University Journal of Zoology, Volume 35, Issue 1.
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