Feeding Systems with Legumes to Intensify Dairy Farms - cgiar
Feeding Systems with Legumes to Intensify Dairy Farms - cgiar
Feeding Systems with Legumes to Intensify Dairy Farms - cgiar
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pastures. In the seasonally dry hillsides, the major constraint <strong>to</strong> increasing<br />
milk production is the lack of forage.<br />
The following strategies were designed <strong>to</strong> overcome the abovementioned<br />
constraints: (a) an evaluation of new feed resources that meet<br />
nutritional requirements of grazing animals, (b) on-farm participa<strong>to</strong>ry<br />
evaluation of new legume-based forage components <strong>to</strong> intensify lives<strong>to</strong>ck<br />
production and enhance sustainable land use, and (c) characterization of<br />
benchmark sites, economic analysis, and acceptability/adoption studies on<br />
new technologies.<br />
The Consortium takes advantage of the existing capability of the<br />
following entities: CIAT in forage germplasm development and land use<br />
characterization; ILRI in lives<strong>to</strong>ck production systems; the University of<br />
Cornell in nutrient optimization models for ruminants; and national<br />
agricultural research organizations active at the project’s benchmark sites in<br />
Peru (FUNDAAM, DEPAAM), Costa Rica (MAG, ECAG, CATIE, UCR),<br />
Nicaragua (MA), and Honduras (DICTA).<br />
The Tropileche Consortium is financed jointly by the Inter-American<br />
Development Bank (IDB) and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation<br />
(GTZ) through the Systemwide Lives<strong>to</strong>ck Programme, coordinated by the<br />
International Lives<strong>to</strong>ck Research Institute (ILRI).<br />
This report presents the activities carried out for each research<br />
component carried out at the benchmark sites.<br />
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