Sci.Int.(Lahore),29(1),221-224,2017 ISSN: 1013-5316; CODEN: SINTE 8 221 January-February LIVESTOCK GEO-DATABASE FOR PUNJAB PROVINCE Rana Mubeen Akhtar [1] , Qudsia Hamid [1] , Muhammad Hamid Chaudry [1] , Nida Samad [1] , Muhammad Burhan Khalid [2] 1 Centre for Geographic Information Systems, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan 2 Punjab University College of Information Technology, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan Corresponding Author: qudsia@pucit.edu.pk ABSTRACT: Livestock is the most important subsector of agrarian economy of Pakistan. With advent of technology in each and every sector of economy and development of e-government, Punjab government is aiming at making all public sector organizations’ data accessible to public through Punjab government web p ortal and ultimately integration of entrie data to national Spatial Data Infrastructure. This research provides a framework for development of geodatabase to explore, visualize and manipulate livestock data at various administrative jurisdictions and at parcel level details. Spatial component of this project consists of provincial, division, district, tehsil and parcel shape files integrated with livestock census data 2006. Census data provides details of total animals and their segregation according to age and sex. Parcel level details of animals and their owners are collected through survey. Entire level of details are developed as a geodatabase in ArcMap 10 to visualize and analyze livestock data at district level. The research provides an estimation of livestock products in Puanjb province. Keywords: geodatabase, livestock, equine, lrage ruminants, small ruminants. INTRODUCTION: LIVESTOCK in a broader sense is a term used for all grown animals. Livestock rearing and domestication of animals is one of the earliest human activity. Livestock products are also an important way of securing a livelihood among the poor and of creating job opportunities for a large proportion (30%) of the world’s population [16] . Livestock also provide benefits other than food, such as biodiversity [4]. Livestock contributes directly to the livelihoods and food security of almost a billion people [6][7]. In recent decades, the world food economy has seen a shift towards increased consumption of animal-source foods. In developing countries, the meat and dairy sectors have grown at average yearly rates of 5.1 percent and 3.6 percent respectively since 1970 [2]. As the largest land-use system on Earth, the livestock sector occupies 30% of the world’s ice-free surface, contributes 40% of global agricultural gross domestic product, and provides income for more than 1.3 billion people and nourishment for at least 800 million food-insecure people [11]. Pakistan is rich in livestock wealth in terms of numbers of species and breeds as well as their population. Livestock found in Pakistan belong to seven species i.e. buffaloes, cattle, sheep, goats, camels, equine (horses, donkeys and mules) and poultry. Currently, livestock population of Pakistan consists of 26.3 million buffaloes, 24.2 million cattle, 56.7 million goats, 24.9 million sheep, 800 thousand camels, 300 thousand horses and 4.5 million mules/ donkeys [8]. With the advent of computer technology and development of e-Government concept, each and every public sector organization in Pakistan is now a days aiming at developing their data in electronic format and making it accessible to the public through their web portals. E-Government has been developed in various countries. E-government is defined as the use of Information Technology by the public sector organization [13]. One of the new paradigm in e-Government is e-Livestock [1]. Keeping in view the importance of livestock in agrarian economy of Pakistan, this research aims at developing GIS database exhibiting livestock distribution in administrative enumeration units of Punjab and a case study of distribution of livestock at parcel level in Basirpur Punjab. GIS as "an organized collection of computer hardware, software, geographic data, and personnel designed to efficiently capture, store, update, manipulate, analyze, and display all forms of geographically referenced information" [5]. The use of GIS plays already a fundamental role in many areas (health and human services, utilities and communication, natural resources, etc.) with a continuous increase in the number of studies dealing with the analysis of geo-referenced data [3][12]. Study Area The project has two different level of details. Firstly, the livestock cadastral database is prepared at district level based upon livestock census of 2006 with a provision of integration of next census. whereas next part is livestock database at parcel level. Parcel level details are provided by Livestock and husbandry department of Punjab Government. The study Area selected for parcel level mapping is Basirpur that is located in Tehsil Depalpur District Okara in Punjab. Figure 1: Study Area Methodology The importance of the livestock sector as a user of natural resources, as a source of livelihoods, and as an engine of economic growth has been the focus of significant attention in the last decade [6,9,10,14,15]. The existing livestock enumeration system consists of livestock census at the national level every ten years conducted by the Agricultural Census Organization (ACO), which is an attached department of the statistics Division, Ministry of Finance, Economic Affairs and Statistics, Government of Pakistan. For the sake of simplicity, the population estimates of livestock species (2001-2002) have been grouped into three types i.e. Large