Abiotic, Biotic and Social-economic Factor Effecting Livestock Production in Rural Cambodia

High-level development of policy, official government policy and policy-based evidence are principally gotten from the decision of farmers, producers, and other communities. To understand the farmers’ decision better is to understand factors affecting their production, this paper aimed to identify the abiotic, biotic and socio-economic factors affecting livestock production in rural Cambodia. 204 rural households were interviewed. The result identified two major biotic factors affecting livestock production – diseases and parasites while the major factors on abiotic include heat stress and drought; and the top three social factors affecting their livestock production are low capital, poor breed and access to veterinary services. Using biplot analysis, the study reveals that farmers with large number of livestock consider most of the constraints minimal but put more emphasis on market information as their major constraints. The outcome of this research is specially suggested the Government to invest more the research and strengthening the livestock subsector.