Socioeconomic constraints and development strategies for the small ruminant sector

Agriculture is our life and the socioeconomic issues is the root of this life. Small Ruminates sub sector facing a lot of studies, projects and strategies, without understanding all farmers details and methods of thinking, cant formulate any creative plan reflects actual farmers needs and national visions. Small ruminants' production is important but neglected resource, with multiple goals in West Bank-Palestine. Combined with the complexity of their management, the resources and socioeconomic arrangements involved make small ruminants keeping an enterprise that is inherently difficult to study and to understand. This study analyzed the socioeconomic constraints of small ruminants' production systems, in order to understand their development prospects in different production systems through different agro-ecological zones. Hence, this study investigated and analyzed the socio-economic structure by, determining, highlight, and rank the constraints facing small ruminants' production, explaining SR rearers' opinions about adoption of certain technologies, get insight on SR fattening practices and their perceptions on sheep performances.