Trend of Increase or Desrease in Sheep Breeding in Separate Regions of Republic of Macedonia

Abstract

The national agricultural policy in R. Macedonia to encourage the development of agriculture is conducted to obtain more competitiveness in the market by subsidizing agriculture, including sheep breeding. Analysis of data from the State Statistical Office of R. Macedonia has shown that the subsidizing agriculture has increased in the period from 2005 to 2013, which contributes to the increase in exports. The subject of this research paper is to observe the number of sheep in the individual and business sectors in R. Macedonia by regions: Vardar, Eastern, Southwest, Southeast, Pelagonia, Polog, Northeast andSkopjeregion. The aim is to see whether this branch of husbandry registered an upward or downward trend in the period from 2009 to 2012. From the analysis it can be concluded that the decreasing trend is present, but the latest data for the period of 2013 show that the state of sheep breeding is much better.