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Title: Case study 5: A profitable forage-based beef industry for the red soils region of China
Contributor(s): Hunter, Bob (author); Robertson, Bevan (author); Nolan, John V  (author)orcid ; MacLeod, Neil (author); Jones, Dick (author)
Publication Date: 2011
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/9747
Abstract: In 1987, a report compiled by ACIAR, Winrock International and the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences noted that beef production had the potential to provide an economic basis for rejuvenating the red soils agricultural systems in southern China and to increase the standard of living of local people. Major constraints to achieving these objectives included the poor quality of feed available to cattle and the infertile soils that, when coupled with the climatic extremes, made practical year-round production of higher quality feeds a serious challenge. Further, local knowledge of beef production in smallholder mixed farming systems was limited, and the farmers were themselves in transition from using cattle for draught to growing cattle for sale. This case study describes how a consortium of Australian and Chinese organisations undertook an ACIAR-funded project in two provinces - Hunan and Jiangxi - to develop forage production and cattle nutrition technologies appropriate to the red soils region and thus improve beef production and farmer income.
Publication Type: Book Chapter
Source of Publication: Beef production in crop-livestock systems: simple approaches for complex problems, p. 127-151
Publisher: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
Place of Publication: Canberra, Australia
ISBN: 9781921738586
9781921738593
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 070101 Agricultural Land Management
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 830406 Sown Pastures (excl. Lucerne)
HERDC Category Description: B1 Chapter in a Scholarly Book
Publisher/associated links: http://aciar.gov.au/publication/MN145
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153790782
Series Name: ACIAR Monograph
Series Number : 145
Editor: Editor(s): Bill Winter
Appears in Collections:Book Chapter

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