Sources of income of farming and herding households. Sources of income can be roughly divided into two categories: one is income from agricultural and livestock production, and the other is other household income. Income from agricultural and animal husbandry production mainly comes from the following sources: (1) income from planting, mainly sowing barley, wheat, potatoes, and a small amount of oilseed rape, etc.; (2) income from breeding, mainly Tibetan chickens (meat and eggs), Tibetan pigs, etc.; (3) income from animal husbandry products and their rough processing, mainly including fresh milk, wool, beef, mutton, ghee, milk dregs, cattle and sheep skins, and the sale of live animals. Fresh milk is generally processed into ghee and milk dregs in livestock production, and the amount directly consumed or sold is very small; (4) other agricultural and animal husbandry products, mainly farmyard fertilizer, fuelwood, and so on. Other family incomes include: (1) income from individual transportation; (2) income from working outside the home; (3) income from wages and salaries (combined pensions); and (4) income from favors.
(2) Expenditure
Farming and herding household expenditure items. Expenditure items can be broadly divided into two categories: one is living expenses, mainly spent on food, clothing, education, health care,, electricity, other (including human accident expenses, laundry supplies, communications, house decoration, household equipment, gas, etc.), etc.; the other is productive expenditures, mainly spent on fertilizers, seeds, energy, hired labor, fodder and machinery inputs, etc..