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CENSUS RESULTS54In 1994/95 Agricultural Census for Large Scale Farms, the total number of goats was 12,343 reared on 296 large scalefarms. The average number of goats has therefore increased from 42 goats per farm in 1994/95 to 56 goats per farm in2002/03. The rate of growth after eight years was anChart 2.138: Goat Population by Operatiorannual rate of about 7.9%.8,0007,1816,894The high goat producing regions of Coast, Morogoroand Manyara account for 38 percent of total goatpopulation in large scale farming. The goatpopulation declines as you go from Northern/Easterntowards the Central/Lake Zone of the Mainland.Lindi had the highest number of goats per farm.Improved goats for milk were concentrated inMorogoro, Mara, Iringa and Kilimanjaro while theimproved goats for meat were concentrated inKilimanjaro (Chart 2.137).Most goats are kept on private Large Scale farms (Chart 2.138).Number6,0004,0002,0000PrivateRegisteredOperatorsOthersNumber of Goats5,455PrivateNonregistered1,627 1,467GovernmentOperatorsParastatalOperatorsOperator3.1.3 Sheep PopulationThe number of sheep kept by large scale farms inTanzania as of 1 st October 2003 was 12,230. Thesewere reared by 205 farms representing 16.9 percentof the total number of large scale farms and 40.8percent of livestock keeping farms.Table 2.17: Number of Farms Raising Sheep by Herd SizeHerd SizeNumber ofFarms%Number ofSheep%Averageper Farm< 20 100 49 942 8 920 - 40 41 20 1,199 10 2941 - 60 20 10 959 8 4861 - 80 8 4 566 5 7181 - 100 6 3 554 5 92100+ 28 14 8,010 65 286Total 203 100 12,230 101 60The majority of the farms (49%) keep less than 20 sheep and account for 8 percent of the total sheep population. About 14percent of the farms keep sheep at above 100 per holding. This accounts for 65 percent of the total number of sheep.Sheep production in large scale farms isChart 2.139: Sheep Population by Regionconcentrated in the North Eastern regions andCoast region and declines steadily towards thesouth. Kilimanjaro is the largest sheep producing3,0002,5002,0001,500region (2,511 head) followed by Coast (2,0991,000head). Mara, Singida, Shinyanga, Dodoma,500Ruvuma, Rukwa, Mtwara and Lindi have verysmall populations of sheep. Kilimanjaro also hasthe highest number of sheep per farm. Tabora00Regionand Mara have high numbers of sheep per farmconsidering their low sheep population. This is inNumber of SheepSheep/Farmcontrast with Kilimanjaro which has both a high sheep population and a high number of sheep per farm (Chart 2.139).NumberKilimanjaroCoastArushaMorogoroIrin gaTangaDar es SalaamMwanzaMbeyaManyaraTaboraKigomaMaraSingidaShinyangaDodom aRuvumaRukwaMtwaraLindiKagera18016014012010080604020Head p er FarmTanzania Agriculture Sample Census – 2003