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The value of livestock increased annually after 1981, but the
decreases in livestock in the early revolutionary period were such
that by 1985 the overall value of livestock remained below the 1976
level. Severe shortages of meat and eggs, coupled with high demand
and the absence of price controls, encouraged the raising of
livestock and were expected to improve livestock availability.
Livestock-raising methods were generally unsophisticated. Sheep
and goats were kept by nomadic tribesmen and by sedentary villagers
who supported a few animals as a sideline to farming. These animals
had diets of grass and shrubs that often left them diseased and
malnourished; in turn, the herders obtained little profit in the
way of meat, milk, hair, and hides.
Data as of December 1987
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