A preliminary study on influencing factors of livestock slaughter rates A case study in four cities of Tibet Autonomous Region

Abstract: Questionnaires and interviews were used to investigate factors that affected livestock slaughter rates based on ages of farmers, educational background, livestock structure, sales and the farmers wish in the four cities of Tibet Autonomous Region.The results showed that farmers and herders over the age of 31 had stronger ideological conflicts about improving slaughter rates due to the influence of the ideas of wealth and religious. Qthers farmers and herders under the age of 31 with a higher educational background hoped to improve slaughter rates and were able to accept ideas of planting artificial grass. University students had much different opinions on wealth and religious thought campared with the farmers and herders. The students could better accept the new ideas and have a much stronger willingness to improve the rate of livestock for sale which had important significance to promote the rate of domestic animals for sale in pastoral areas and reduce the pressure on natural grassland in the future.