Feeding Systems with Legumes to Intensify Dairy Farms - cgiar
Feeding Systems with Legumes to Intensify Dairy Farms - cgiar
Feeding Systems with Legumes to Intensify Dairy Farms - cgiar
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RESEARCH RESULTS<br />
Component 3. Usefulness of New Forage <strong>Systems</strong><br />
Activity 3.1. Diagnosis and economic characterization of land use at<br />
benchmark sites<br />
Highlights<br />
• Ex-ante analysis of improved technologies is useful <strong>to</strong> identify<br />
constraints <strong>to</strong> potential adoption of new technologies by local<br />
producers.<br />
• Ex-post analysis of new technologies is useful <strong>to</strong> determine the<br />
economic impact as a result of the adoption process.<br />
• There is a high demand for new improved forage-based alternatives <strong>to</strong><br />
intensify milk production in the Al<strong>to</strong> Mayo region of the Peruvian<br />
Amazon.<br />
• The entry point <strong>to</strong> achieve greatest economic impact on small dualpurpose<br />
farms, located in the dry subtropics, is through the<br />
establishment of shrub legumes <strong>with</strong> sugarcane.<br />
• In Central America, the milk market for small artisan rural cheese<br />
fac<strong>to</strong>ries has a higher demand in the dry season than during the rainy<br />
season.<br />
• Small artisan rural cheese fac<strong>to</strong>ries in Central America are willing <strong>to</strong><br />
pay a higher price for milk of better hygienic quality.<br />
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