Investigating the share of rangelands in nomadic household's stockbreeding income (Case study: Humian Basin)

Rangelands are the main food supply for the livestock of nomads in Iran. The nomadic of Iran leads to a self- dependent lifestyle by livestock on rangelands. The proportion of contribution of rangelands in household’s income of nomadic life is yet to be determined. So the results of this study seem to be of great importance regarding the recognition of the fundamental role of rangelands in the nomadic economy. In this study the number of livestocks, pure and impure income, livestock expenditures and income of nomadic pastoralists, other incomes from rangeland products, forage utilization as well as other livestocks requirements of the utilizers were studied. The data of this study have been collected through questionnaire filled out by 50 randomly chosen nomads’ pastoralists from Homian basin in Koohdasht town in Lorestan province. To analyse the results one - way ANOVA and the mean comparison of multi dimension DUNCAN test have been used. Based on the results, the rangeland share in nomad's income proved to be over 70 percent of their stockbreeding income and the findings is an indication of economical reliance of nomadic pastoralists on rangelands.