Mixed Crop-Livestock Systems
The burden and spatial distribution of bovine African trypanosomes in small holder crop livestock production systems in Tororo District, south eastern Uganda
... of livestock holding in south-eastern ...these mixed crop-livestock systems ...Production systems that retain a very high proportion of cattle above 3 years of age pose a risk ...
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Crop-Livestock Interactions in Smallholders’ Market Participation: Evidence from Crop-Livestock Mixed Systems in Ethiopia
... in livestock market, most smallholders in a mixed crop-livestock systems participate both in crop and livestock ...in crop markets but less strongly the other way ...
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Sustainable development of smallholder crop livestock farming in developing countries
... to livestock producers taking advantage of growing markets include; lack of forage and feed gaps, communal land tenure, limited access to land and water resources, weak institutions, poor infrastructure and ...
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Managing Corn Residue and Double Cropped Forages in Crop and Livestock Systems
... All diets contained 46% brome hay (11% CP, 2% ether extract (EE), 77% NDF, 92% OM) and 4% supplement which provided 200 mg / hd daily (DM basis) monensin (Rumensin, Elanco Animal Health, Indianapolis, IN). Treatments ...
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Evaluation of major feed resources in crop-livestock mixed farming systems, southern Ethiopia: Indigenous knowledge versus laboratory analysis results
... Crop-livestock mixed system is the dominant farming system in the central southern Ethiopia, where animals are reared together with crop ...for crop production while crop ...
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CROP-LIVESTOCK PRODUCTION SYSTEMS CONTRIBUTIONS TO LIVESTOCK DIET AND FARMERS’ LIVELIHOOD IN IBADAN/ IBARAPA AREA, OYO STATE, NIGERIA
... They mixed chopped maize stover and other crop residues especially during harvest for the small ...consumption. Crop residues, naturally occurring pasture and purchased feeds contributed major ...
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Competition for land resources: driving forces and consequences in crop-livestock production systems of the Ethiopian highlands
... increase. Mixed farming is an important livelihood strategy that plays a fundamental role in reducing risks and improving nutritional ...rear livestock to fulfill their subsistence ...from crop ...
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Assessment of economic impacts of climate change on livestock and crop returns in the coastal region of Kenya
... agricultural systems in the country are dependent on climate and because of the complex role agriculture serves in rural Africa and in the economic and social systems (Abate ...on livestock ...
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Prototyping organic mixed crop dairy systems at a local scale : a multi attribute approach
... Complementary organic mixed crop Complementary Complementary organic farming farming systems systems dairy systems livestock systems Valorisation of the small territory’s land capabiliti[r] ...
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Dairying and whole-farm economics of crop-livestock farming systems - comparing arid and irrigated districts of Punjab, Pakistan
... to livestock also adversely affects the farm productivity, livestock rearing being highly labour intensive must be considered in the trade-off for crops grown (Erenstein et ...keeping livestock in ...
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Comparison of Technical Efficiency and Socio-economic Status in Animal-crop Mixed Farming Systems in Dry Lowland Sri Lanka
... The study was conducted in dry-lowland dairy farming systems in Polonnaruwa and Baticaloa districts of Sri Lanka. This area accounts 23.41% of dairy population and 30.02% of milk production out of total in ...
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Strategies for sustainable nutrient management:insights from a mixed natural and social science analysis of Chinese crop production systems
... value crop systems tend to apply fertilisers to greatest excess (Powlson et ...450 livestock and crop production that has been driven by increasing demand for meat and dairy 451 products and ...
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Studying mixed livestock farming systems in Languedoc Roussillon: connecting innovations, adapting capacities and territory embeddedness
... sustainable systems. This aspect has been widely studied concerning crop diversity offering a better management of weeds and pests and soil fertility in farming ...in livestock farming systems ...
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Evaluation of livestock feed balance under mixed crop–livestock production system in the central highlands of Ethiopia
... MCL systems are dependent on CR as the main source of feed for ...compete livestock feed ...of crop and livestock sci- entists aimed at multidimensional crop improvement to increase the ...
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Transformative and systemic climate change adaptations in mixed crop-livestock farming systems
... Mixed crop-livestock farming systems provide food for more than half of the world’s ...agricultural systems are predicted to be vulnerable to climate change and therefore require ...
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Determinants of crop–livestock diversification in the mixed farming systems: evidence from central highlands of Ethiopia
... on mixed farming in managing production risks, stud- ies on farm diversification in Ethiopia is minimal and largely focused on crops and ...on crop–livestock diversification in central highlands of ...
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Saffron Crop (Golden Crop) in Modern Sustainable Agricultural Systems
... agricultural systems. It may be considered a viable alternative crop for marginal lands, especially where low water availability severely limits the cultivation of many ...
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Mixed Tiling Systems
... This chapter links the fractal tiling theory outlined in the previous two chapters to mainstream tiling literature. A keystone paper in the tiling literature is by Anderson and Putnam (A & P) which shows how to ...
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Genetic Improvement of Livestock for Organic Farming Systems
... feed—a minimum of the ingredients should be Organic farming relies on functional integrity, organically grown-and make-up of ration, e.g., a which has direct effects on the way farm animals minimum percentage of roughage ...
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Animal health in organic livestock systems: a review
... ic livestock farmers shows that not many farmers use alternative or complementary treatments in view of lacking scientific evidence (Kijlstra & Van Der Werf, ...
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