Livestock-forestry production in the Spanish American Humid Tropics
The forests are being replaced by pastures after the soil has been used for annual crops. Many pastures that have passed through this cycle are rundown and abandoned. One of solutions suggested is that forage grasses be associated with timber trees. In the Ecuadorian Amazonic region, the legume Mucuna pruriens var. utiles (velvet bean) is being used previously to pasture renovation to lower weed acurrence and improve soil fertility. At the beginning of the next rainy season and after pasturing of the Mucuna, vegetative material of the forage grass Brachiaria humidicola is planted with a dibble stick at a distance of 1 x 1 m, the false stakes of the timber tree Cordia alliodora are also planted in the same way at a distance of 5 x 5 m. One hectare pasture maintaining two bovine, with an extraction rate of 25 per cent per year, will produce ten heads of cattle in 20 years. therefore, livestock-forestry production has great potential for improving stability and duplicating pasture rentability in the Spanish American humid tropic.
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Turrialba (Costa Rica)
1979
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| Subjects: | SISTEMAS SILVOPASTORILES, TROPICOS HUMEDOS, AMERICA LATINA, |
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