An economic assessment of cattle raising enterprises in the Red Soils Region of China
Chinese cattle numbers have greatly expanded in the past 20 years ; largely carried on small farms that have traditionally grown food crops.Limited use of specialised forages and poor knowledge of cattle feeding and husbandry is challenging the establishment of sustainable beef enterprises.Economic results are presented from an Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research ( ACIAR) project that explored new forage options for the Red Soils Region of China, which covers 2.6 million km2.An economic model is applied to a smallholder farm located in Hunan Province, to identify the potential for these options to increase the economic welfare of smallholder households.
smallholders forages cattle economics Red Soils
Neil MacLeod Wen Shilin
CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems,306 Carmody Rd,St Lucia Q 4067,Australia. CAAS,Red Soils Experiment Station,Wenf ushi,Qiyang County,Hunan Province,PRC,426182
国际会议
呼和浩特
英文
2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）