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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Videotape Production<br />
Federico Holmann 1 , Carlos Lascano 1 , Pedro Argel 1 , and R. Goyenaga 2<br />
CIAT, Colombia (1), and MAG, Costa Rica (2)<br />
As part of Tropileche’s strategy <strong>to</strong> diffuse information about technology<br />
adoption by farmers, the Consortium, <strong>with</strong> the collaboration of the<br />
Communications Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of Costa Rica,<br />
produced an 11-minute videotape on the evolution of a dual-purpose farm,<br />
owned by An<strong>to</strong>nio López, in the dry tropics of the Central Pacific region of<br />
Costa Rica.<br />
An<strong>to</strong>nio is a small farmer and one of the Consortium’s collabora<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
who has adopted many of the technologies promoted by the Consortium<br />
through Costa Rica’s Ministry of Agriculture and Lives<strong>to</strong>ck Production<br />
(MAG). An<strong>to</strong>nio is currently producing more milk on less area, he has<br />
doubled the family income, and has released areas from lives<strong>to</strong>ck production<br />
which are now protecting the farm’s water sources.<br />
This videotape will be used <strong>to</strong> show other producers in Costa Rica and<br />
elsewhere in Latin America how one small farmer succeeded in intensifying<br />
production <strong>with</strong> new forage technologies, based on improved grasses and<br />
legumes, <strong>with</strong> the technical assistance of MAG and seed donated by the<br />
Tropileche Consortium.<br />
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