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Keep livestock for money, not as pets

Some farmers practise livestock farming as a hobby. (Photo: Courtesy)

There are farmers who practise farming as a hobby; they take pleasure in seeing livestock dot their farms and love to talk about them among their friends. Though they endeavour to get some monetary gain, they quite don’t; nonetheless, that does not bother them in anyway, but it should.

However, the funny bit is that they don’t quit neither do they bother to question the state of affairs. In other words, they keep their livestock as if they are pets. Pets offer company but not monetary gain.

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