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Mixed crop-livestock farming : a review of traditional technologies based on literature and field experiences /

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Integrated agricultural systems.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiere, Hans
Other Authors: Kater, Loes
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Rome : FAO, 2001.
Series:FAO animal production and health paper. 152.
Subjects:
Animals, Domestic.
Agriculture.
Developing Countries.
Table of Contents:
  • What is mixed farming?
  • Forms of mixed farming
  • Mixed crop-livestock systems, different modes
  • Concluding comments
  • Types of technology
  • Mixed farming and the communal ideotype
  • Concluding comments
  • Unconventional animals
  • Dairy animals
  • Animals for draught and transport
  • Poultry
  • Goats
  • Concluding comments
  • Animal health
  • Housing and management
  • Feeding technologies
  • Animal breeding and genetic resources
  • Rearing of young animals
  • Processing of meat and milk
  • Concluding comments
  • Integrating crops and livestock
  • Crop residue and soil management
  • Dung and urine and the cycling of nutrients
  • Cropping patterns, livestock and nutrients
  • Energy, biogas and nutrients
  • Agroforestry and soil fertility
  • Concluding comments
  • The communal ideotype revisited on the farm level
  • The communal ideotype at community level
  • Policy measures
  • Concluding comments
  • The infield/outfield system
  • The Kano close-settled zone
  • The Machakos case in Kenya
  • The Flemish/Norfolk system
  • The Mediterranean legume-grain rotation
  • The CIPAV system
  • Concluding remarks
  • Concluding comments