Developing tropical forage technologies with farmers in China

摘要：

The tropical and south subtropical areas in China covers 480,000km2 where is populated and mountainous upland.Over 5 million people are still under poverty.Ruminants is the very important farm labour and main income source for smallhold farmers in the area.There is a big potential for farmers to use marginal land planting forages to improve their animal production system against poverty.Thus the Forages for Smallholders Project ( FSP) and Livestock and later Livlihood Systems Project(LLSP) funded by AusAID and ADB has been co‐conducted by CATAS and CIAT from 1995 to 2005 in Hainan province, China and other five countries in SEA on participatory forage technology development.

关键词： tropical forage smallhold farmer participatory approach rural development

作者: YI Kexian TANG Jun HE Huaxuan ZHOU Hanlin XIA Wangliang

作者单位: Chinese Academy of TropicaLagricultural Sciences,Hainan571737,China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2008世界草地与草原大会

会议地点: 呼和浩特

会议语种:英文

在线出版日期: 2008-06-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）