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    Effect of the War on Tigray's Cattle-keeping Households, the case of North-Western Zone
    (Mekelle University, 2025-02) Micheale Asgedom Adhanom
    In order to study effects of the war on Tigray's Cattle-keeping Households in North-Western Zone of the region, a survey of 120 sample household heads from three woredas (Tahetay Adyabo, Meakelay Adyabo and Tahetay Koraro) of the Zone, was collected through questionnaires and in-depth interviews with three government officials from each woredas. Besides, secondary data were observed from literature. Descriptive analysis method with triangulation is used for analysis. Major results of the study shows the war has inflicted immense effects on livestock-catttle sector of the region. Most of the' cattle were raided or looted by the armed groups, and significant number of cattle are killed and slaughtered by the invaders. The perpetrators are: Eritrean Soldiers, ENDF and Amhara Militia & Fano. Besides, due to the veterinary centers were also looted and destroyed by the Eritrean Soldiers, large size of the region's cattle were died from various animal diseases. Additionally, due to the war the farmers' annual revenues obtained from sales of their live-cattle and cattle-products have alarmingly decreased. For instance, results of the finding indicate that their revenues from sales of live-cattle, Milk and Dung have decreased by 112%, 300% and 157% respectively. Moreover, during the post-war period, 67% of the sample farmers couldn't use fertilizer, mainly because they don't have the financial capacity to buy the fertilizer. As a result, their cattle-crop production level have highly decreased. Finally, due to the war-driven challenges, currently, large amount of youths are now left unemployed (unengaged) from their former crop-cattle production activities, and women are found to be in a more severe position than their male counterparts. Some of the recommendations forwarded are: Since, there is no adequate data about the levels of damage the war has inflicted on the livestock sector, any concerned bodies especially scholars should make a detailed full scale research on the sector; unpaid old credits of the farmers who took for financing their crop-cattle activities, should be either cancelled or minimized by the financial institutions and provide them with new credits which could help them in reinstating to their economic (at least cattleowning) status.; the government should provide the chemical fertilizer at a very cheaper price; Labour-- intensive type of investments should be encouraged in order to minimize the war effects on the youth's unemployment rates; and special affirmative actions should be taken where women could get the primarily benefits from the opportunities in the livestock-cattle sector.