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Animal husbandry has a significant impact on the world environment. It is responsible for somewhere between 20 and 33% of the fresh water usage in the world, [57] and livestock, and the production of feed for them, occupy about a third of Earth's ice-free land. [58]
The following is a list of countries by live animal exports. Data is for 2019, in millions of United States dollars , as reported by International Trade Centre . [ 1 ] Currently the top twenty countries are listed.
English: Overview of the Gridded Livestock of the World (GLW 3) data sets for cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, horses, pigs, chickens and ducks, based on the dasymetric model. Date 30 October 2018
The following article lists the world's largest producers of meat. Global meat production has increased rapidly over the past 50 years. According to Our World in Data, meat production has more than quintupled since 1961, reaching around 361 million tonnes in 2022. [1] The most popular meat globally is poultry, followed by pork, beef and mutton.
World cattle meat production in 2021 was 72.3 million tons. [101] ... Stocking density is the number of animals within a specified area.
A number of factors determine how quickly any changes may occur in a species, but there is not always a desire to improve a species from its wild form. Domestication is a gradual process, so there is no precise moment in the history of a given species when it can be considered to have become fully domesticated.
However, due to deforestation and poaching, this beautiful creature has been listed as “near threatened” on the IUCN Red List since 2008. 81. Alabai. This animal is a Central Asian livestock ...
They are raised as livestock for their flesh (called beef and veal), dairy products (milk), leather and as draught animals. As of 2009–2010 it is estimated that there are 1.3–1.4 billion head of cattle in the world. [47] [48] Diagram of feedlot system. This can be contrasted with more traditional grazing systems.