Laboratory of Farm Management, Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics and Business Administration, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Graduate school of Bioresource and Bioenvironmental Sciences, Kyushu University
Laboratory of Farm Management,Division of International Agricultural Resource Economics and Business Administration,Department of Agricultural and Resoruce Economics,Faculty of Agriculture,Kyushu University
In Bulgarian economy now rens the free market economic principles. It means that all of rational sheep farmers strive to get more income. The research will be concentrated to stusy "critical factors" that determine profitable or losong profiles of different type (mountainous and plain) and size (normal, small, medium, large) farms. Along with favorable increasing of sheep number within particular farms is important to be archeived production growth. The current levels of production are poor thus sheep farmers must rise it by adoption of higher fecundity breeds and rams and improved husbandry. Nowadays, throughout country the pastureland amounts to 1,5-1,6 million ha. About 75-80% is located on hills and steep slope places intrinsic for sheep graziong. Therefore, farmes in mountainous regions should exploit the posibilities for enhancing sheep number while farmers from plain regions to try to transform barren land there unto pasture area.