Sentence examples for cattle keeping from inspiring English sources

In conclusion, a CBPP outbreak could cause the loss of a household's entire income from cattle keeping.

There, in the 1860s, he established a new state based on the growing of grain, cattle keeping, and slave raiding.

A few northern societies, such as the Karimojong, are mainly pastoralists, but most northern societies combine cattle keeping with some cultivation.

Early in the 2nd millennium ce, cattle keeping became more intensive on the Batoka Plateau of southern Zambia, while cotton spinning and pipe smoking were introduced.

Despite its equatorial location, Mr. Chrétien says, "the region is blessed with good climate, is rich with diverse soils and plants, and has prospered thanks to some strong basic techniques: the association of cattle keeping and agriculture; the diffusion of the banana a millennium ago; and the mastery of iron metallurgy two millennia ago".

The Fulani are well-known in the anthropological literature for their skill in cattle keeping (e.g. Stenning 1959).

That fishing could act similarly was, to our knowledge, first mentioned in the scientific literature in 1902, when Cloudsley Rutter wrote: 'A large fish is worth more on the markets than a small fish; but so are large cattle worth more on the market than small cattle, yet a stock-raiser would never think of selling his fine cattle and keeping only the runts to breed from.

Shelby had homes in the Bel Air hills of Los Angeles and in Las Vegas, and owned ranchland in Pittsburg, Tex., where he raised miniature horses and African cattle while keeping his hand in high-performance design into his later years.

One owner guessed that her neighbors "are doing fine…doing it about the same way we are: thinning, logging it every few years…The cattle are keeping the brush down".

Better-off households keeping cattle owned relatively large cattle herds of about 100 head, whereas the few poor households with cattle had only one or two animals.

In Rwanda, a similar ethnic conflict between cattle-keeping Tutsis and farming Hutus culminated in genocide in 1994.